Growing up, Lýdia Budayová’s parents would only tell her stories and fairy tales in Slovak. In fact, she does not remember any books in Rusyn, though it was the language spoken in their household. Her ...

When Oli Džupinková speaks to her audience on Slovakia’s most popular radio station from a Bratislava studio, an unwitting listener would never guess that Slovak is not her only mother tongue. She ...

With continuing upheavals in Eastern Europe, most Americans are identifying 1990 as the year Lithuania rebelled and the two Germanies reunited. Few realize, however, that in northeastern ...

A typical Rusyn house in the Presov region, northeastern Slovakia (Dr. Michele Parvensky) PRAGUE, September 22, 2006 (RFE/RL) -- Last week the Transcarpathian Oblast Council appealed to Ukraine's ...