Zakarpattia region

[Turbin]

Intrestingly enough in the most Western region of Ukraine known as Zakarpattia or Uzhgorod, no fraud was reported but Yushenko got only 55 % with Yanukovich winnig about 40 %. Compare it ti neighbouring Lvov region (Yushenko 94%) and Ivano-Frankivsk (Yu-93%) the result is remarkably different from the rest of Western Ukraine.


Fri Dec 24, 9:18 AM ET

Ukrainian Prime Minister Viktor Yanukovich (L) kisses a girl dressed in a national costume during a meeting with supporters near the border city of Chop in the Zakarpattia region, December 24, 2004. Yanukovich travelled to the Zakarpattia region to meet with voters on the last day of campaigning before Sunday's rerun of Ukraine's rigged presidential election. REUTERS/Gleb Garanich

[The_Last_Word]

Very good point!
The sons of Rus, or Rusyns of Carpathian Rus (not Ukraine) were always different from the Galicians across the mountains from them. They have a very different history from the Galicians. Their people suffered a great deal from all Catholic neighbors and never had the fanatical nationalism of the other western Ukrainians.

Originally posted by Turbin
Intrestingly enough in the most Western region of Ukraine known as Zakarpattia or Uzhgorod, no fraud was reported but Yushenko got only 55 % with Yanukovich winnig about 40 %. Compare it ti neighbouring Lvov region (Yushenko 94%) and Ivano-Frankivsk (Yu-93%) the result is remarkably different from the rest of Western Ukraine.


Fri Dec 24, 9:18 AM ET

Ukrainian Prime Minister Viktor Yanukovich (L) kisses a girl dressed in a national costume during a meeting with supporters near the border city of Chop in the Zakarpattia region, December 24, 2004. Yanukovich travelled to the Zakarpattia region to meet with voters on the last day of campaigning before Sunday's rerun of Ukraine's rigged presidential election. REUTERS/Gleb Garanich

[hating_nation]

theres a reason rusyns are nither russians or ukes....they naturaly choose a president that is as far as possible to west ukraine since they want own country but ukraine wont let them so they choose the least uke nationalist....they been almost 1000 years with hungary...they have the rigth to be own country...

[Neighbour]

Still Yushchenko won there. As far as I know 55 is more than 40. A lot more. Orange prevailed and this is a fact.

[Edited by Neighbour on 27th December 2004 at 03:04]

[hating_nation]

i think its good juszenko won but rusyns have rigth to own country i know they want that....

[Sergiox]

the time of the bear might be upon us? Are we talking independence for the Carpatho-Rusyns?

[The_Last_Word]

Independence is what these people wanted a long time ago, ever since the breakup of the Austrian Empire. But because they lacked political experience, they were absorbed by their more powerful neighbors, like Czechoslovakia, and later the USSR.
In the elections, everyone had to make a choice. It just shows they are not fanatical supporters of either candidate.