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Large ethnic Russian (the largest ethnic minority in the country), Romanian (including Moldovans), Bulgarian and Hungarian minorities exist in Ukraine, and Romania and Hungary have striven for the minority rights of the minorities they respectively represent. [2]
Pages in category "Ethnic groups in Ukraine" The following 64 pages are in this category, out of 64 total. This list may not reflect recent changes. ...
Within Ukraine and adjacent areas, there are several other distinct ethnic sub-groups, especially in western Ukraine: places like Zakarpattia and Halychyna. Among them the most known are Hutsuls , [ 111 ] Volhynians , Boykos and Lemkos (otherwise known as Carpatho-Rusyns – a derivative of Carpathian Ruthenians ), [ dubious – discuss ] each ...
On February 23, 2014, the Ukrainian parliament adopted a bill to repeal the 2012 law on minority languages, which—if signed by the Ukrainian president—would have established Ukrainian as the sole official state language of all Ukraine, including Crimea which is populated by a Russian-speaking majority. [75]
Ukrainian Hutsul culture bears a resemblance to neighboring cultures of western and southwestern Ukraine, [33] [34] particularly Lemkos and Boykos. These groups also share similarities with other Slavic highlander peoples, such as the Gorals in Poland and Slovakia. [35]
KYIV, Ukraine — The plight of a Muslim minority in Russian-occupied Crimea highlights a crackdown in a region that President Vladimir Putin has tried to present as an example of the Kremlin’s ...
Most Boykos belong to the Ukrainian Greek Catholic Church, with a minority belonging to the Ukrainian Orthodox Church. The distinctive wooden church architecture of the Boyko region is a three-domed church, with the domes arranged in one line, and the middle dome slightly larger than the others.
This policy change did not improve Hungary–Ukraine relations and Hungarian minority groups in also continued to be unsatisfied and demanded the whole 2017 law to be abolished. [16] According to the 2020 law until the fifth year of education all lessons can be completely taught in the minority language without mandatory teaching of subjects in ...