The RIMC News Archive is updated frequently, not only with the latest news, but with new commentary, translations, and newly-found older news online.
On this page we present a selection of some of the most significant Rusyn news stories found in our archive. We encourage you to also visit each year's ever-expanding archive.
1987
Andy Warhol, Pioneer of Pop Art, Dies After Heart Attack
1995
Vyhlásili kodifikáciu rusínskeho jazyka na Slovensku
[Announcement of the codification of the Rusyn language in Slovakia]
1999
Hail Ruthenia!
A profile of the Rusyn revival in Europe by renowned journalist Timothy Garton Ash. The full article is available only to subscribers; the above link displays an abstract only. However, the full text can be found here.
2001
Slovakia's Warhol museum hobbles to tenth anniversary
НАРОД Є — НАЦІОНАЛЬНОСТІ НЕМАЄ, АБО ДЕЯКІ ДАНІ ПРО ПІДКАРПАТСЬКИХ РУСИНІВ
[There is a nation – There is no such nationality, or, Some data on the Subcarpathian Rusyns] А historical overview of the Rusyn idea since the mid-19th century, with an emphasis on present-day developments, looking toward the upcoming Ukrainian census.
2002
I Am a Lemko
Michal Sandowicz, architect and professor at the Warsaw University of Technology, president of the Warsaw Lemko association, and an Eastern Orthodox activist, talks to Igor Slavich.
Conserving the Rusyn flower in the bouquet of Europe: Juraj Jakubisko's Farebne kamienky (Painted Pebbles, 2002)
Book honors Carpatho-Rusyn history, culture
Zabudnuti?
[The Forgotten?] A television program about the seven Rusyn villages in northeastern Slovakia – Ruské, Smolnik, Veľká Poľana, Starina, Ostružnica, Dara, and Zvala (Snina district) that were depopulated in 1981 due to the construction of a dam on the Cirocha River. Recollections of former villagers are presented amid a backdrop of a Divine Liturgy celebrated by Bishop Milan Chautur (a native of Veľká Poľana) at a reunion of former residents of the villages.
Celebrating Carpatho-Rusyn customs
ОБЄДИНЬОВАЦ, АКТИВОВАЦ И ПОВЯЗОВАЦ МЛАДИХ
[To unite, activate and involve the youth] A new Rusyn youth organization was established in Yugoslavia.
Lemk people fight for survival
Pop Art Icon Honored On United States Postage Stamp
ДЗВОНИ ЛЕМКІВЩИНИ ЧИ ДОСЛУХАЄТЬСЯ ДО НИХ ВЛАДА УКРАЇНИ ТА ПОЛЬЩІ?[Are the Ukrainian and Polish governments listening to the bells of the Lemko Region?]
New Rusyn Websites: The imaginary Rusyn underground
Rusyn victory in Slovakia: Independent Rusyn Radio after 12 years?
ІСТОРИЧНА «БОМБА» «ВИБУХНУЛА» В УЖГОРОДІ[A historic "bomb" (the appearance of the Encyclopedia of Subcarpathian Rus') has gone off in Uzhhorod.] (Also in Russian here)
An Outpost of Pop Art in the BackwoodsA west European journalist visits the Warhola Family Museum of Modern Art in Medzilaborce, Slovakia.
Harmony reigns in an unexpected placeRusyn scholar and publisher Valeriy Padiak of Uzhhorod, Ukraine discusses the harmonious multi-ethnic makeup of the Zakarpatska oblast / Subcarpathian Rus'.
2003
His Beatitude, Metropolitan HERMAN makes Official Visit to the Church of Poland September 4 - 11, 2003
On Saturday, September 6, 2003, His Beatitude, Metropolitan HERMAN celebrated Divine Liturgy for the Feast of St. Maksym Sandovych of Gorlice, at Holy Trinity Church in Gorlice, Poland. Photos from this event are found here.
The Historic Consecration of Saints Cyril & Methodios ChurchA photo gallery of the rite of consecration and first Divine Liturgy in the newly-constructed Rusyn wooden church at Camp Nazareth near Mercer, Pennsylvania.
Local residents delve into their heritage with Carpatho-Rusyn Society
