As time passes, people are forgotten. Age-old buildings act as historical icons in the communities they occupy, but the hands of their builders — their histories, hopes and aspirations — become ...

Rusyns, also reffered to as Ruthenians, Carpatho-Rusyns, or Rusnaks, are a modern Slavic ethnic group speaking the Rusyn language and descended from the minority of Ruthenians who did not adopt a ...

The Rusyns are one of Europe’s most overlooked Slavic groups, living across the mountains of Ukraine, Poland, Slovakia, Hungary, and Romania without ever having their own country. Often caught between ...

Between August 1941 and April 22, 1945, Jasenovac Concentration Camp, comprising Bročice, Krapje, Jasenovac and Stara Gradiška Camps, several camp farms in the surrounding forcibly evicted villages, ...

Andy Warhol, Nikifor and Jerzy Nowosielski are Lemko artists, or Carpathian Ruthenians. For years their art was unknown. A Warsaw museum wants to change that. "We weren't taught about Rusyn art at ...

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The founding congress of the International Russophile Movement was held in Moscow in March 2023. According to the organizers, around 90 representatives from 42 countries attended the event. Prominent ...

We’re all familiar with the descendants of Eastern European ethnicities that populate Luzerne and Lackawanna Counties — Polish, Slovak, Czech, Ukrainian, Lithuanian, and Carpatho-Rusyn. Wait. Carpatho ...

The 43rd annual Carpatho-Rusyn Celebration will take place Sunday, Oct. 26, in St. John the Baptist Byzantine Catholic Church Social Hall, 201 E. Main St., Uniontown. Hours are noon to 5 p.m. The ...

At the Uzhhorod Cathedral it was declared that court rulings against the UOC are in fact restoring the Church of the Rusyns of Subcarpathian Rus. The legal department of the Uzhhorod Exaltation of the ...

This summer, I spent the month of June in Slovakia, where I studied the history and culture of the Rusyn people, an ethnically Slavic minority spread across Central Europe. In Slovakia, I was ...