The Transcarpathian Hungarian Pedagogical Association sent a letter regarding the Hungarian-language education in Ukraine to Hanna Novosad, Minister of Education and Science of Ukraine. This letter was also sent to the editorial staff of Karpátalja.ma, we publish it without any changes.
Last September, the Ukrainian parliament adopted a new law on education, which not only makes it difficult, but also impossible, for minority schools to teach in their national languages. According to the law, Hungarian educational institutions should gradually switch to Ukrainian-language teaching from the 5th grade onwards. This is also in contradiction with Ukraine’s constitution…
A Statement of the Transcarpathian Hungarian Pedagogical Association, November 20, 2019 The Transcarpathian Hungarian Pedagogical Association is concerned about the events occuring around the Hungarian-language education in Ukraine: the news about the cancellation of Hungarian-language textbook publishing that have appeared in the media in recent weeks, as well as sharp reductions in the number of…
On Wednesday, November 16, the Cultural Alliance of Hungarians in Sub-Carpathia (KMKSZ) organized a memorial march of nearly thirty kilometers from Mukachevo to Svaliava to commemorate the men abducted for the Malenkiy Robot (to perform forced labour).
On November 19, the population of Berehove gathered for a commemoration combined with an ecumenical mass. In the town’s Reformed Church, the events that took place 75 years ago and the victims of the Stalinist camps were commemorated. Hundreds of people gathered for the occasion.
This is the way a Mezővári (Vary) resident who was returning home from Budapest in November 1918 interpreted the fact that the Aster Revolution won in Hungary and Károlyi Mihály formed a new government. As a result of the collapse of the Austro-Hungarian Empire, the ubiquitous chaos in the social life of north-eastern Hungarian counties…
György Rákóczi I of Felsővadász, second prince in the family, was born on 8 June, 1593 in Szerencs. His father was Sigismund Rákóczi, the first wealth creator of the Rákóczi family (see our previous article), and his mother was Anna Gerendi. Together with numerous other youngsters, he was also brought up in the court of…
The People’s Servant Party (Sluha Narodu) is preparing a major administrative reform of the territorial division of Ukraine, the news portal mukachevo.net reported on October 11.
„The Transcarpathian Hungarians are Separatists, or Perhaps Only Kyiv Does Not Hear Them” On September 26, an article with this title was published on the azonnali.hu web portal, which contained some vague statements about the Ferenc Rakoczi II Transcarpathian Hungarian Institute, which did not describe the reality and viewpoint of the institute.
The representatives of the Rákóczi family were broad-minded, highly educated people for centuries.
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