До питань етнічної історії та національного визначення українців Словаччини

Abstract

Slovak republic do to its geographical location and complicated historical conditions became a multinational state. Our government is concern primarily with the Hungarian an gipsy minorities and less with the problems of other nations living in Slovak republic. One of them is a group of people called "Rutheni", "Rutheni-Ukrainians" which according to data we have approximately 35 thousands and in reality more then 120 thousands. They live in 220 villages in North-East region, on the border with Poland. The fact that those people never lived in the same political unity with the rest of Ukrainians created complex ethnic processes which one has to know in order to understand their history and culture. Compare to the rest of Ukrainians their national and ethnic consciousness was formatting much slower and more complicated compare with the main mass of Ukrainians.