Ukraine: Ruthenians · Global Voices
Veronica Khokhlova

Window on Eurasia writes about Transcarpathian Ruthenians of Ukraine, who are “calling on Moscow to recognize the independence of Subcarpathian Rus because Kyiv has ignored their demands for autonomy within Ukraine” and who emphasize that “‘the lion’s share’ of Russian gas on its way to European markets flows through Subcarpathian Rus, ‘twice more than through the Baltic states and twice more than through other neighboring countries’.”