Posted on 04/06/2015 7:08:04 AM PDT by Agog
TUCKED away behind the Carpathian mountains, Ukraine’s Transcarpathian region has its share of problems. Ethnic separatism is not among the major ones. Nonetheless, this remote region's Ruthenian and ethnic-Hungarian communities have become a target for Russian propaganda aimed at dividing Ukrainian society.
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Ruthenia. Wasn’t that the northern realm of the Sindarin during the 2nd Age?
I’m still scratching my head in wonder as to what happened to the ZOT kitty regarding Putin lovers who call themselves Freepers.
Ruthenian “separatism” is so 2014.
There was a news flash in Russia about Bessarabian separatism. Bessarabia is literally my backyard, yet I have NEVER even heard about “separatism” there.
http://www.armedpolitics.com/372/bessarabia-another-rather-sloppy-attempt-of-separatism-in-odessa/
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