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Saturday, May 5, 2018
Honest History: Heat from Hungary. How Transcarpathia’s Hungarian past set up its tumultuous present
BEREHOVE, Ukraine
— Fresh trouble with a difficult neighbor is brewing for Ukraine, but this time it’s not only from Russia. Leaders in Hungary, a nation of 9.8 million people that borders Ukraine’s southwestern Zakarpattya Oblast, 800 kilometers southwest of Kyiv, is making Ukraine’s life as difficult as possible.
The region is home to some 100,000 ethnic Hungarians, who constitute 10 percent of Zakarpattya’s population of 1 million.
As Russia did in eastern Ukraine, Hungary is extending its influence in Zakarpattya, trying to dictate to Ukraine how to conduct its internal affairs, accusing it of suppressing the Hungarian minority, and even threatening to block Ukraine’s integration in the European Union and NATO.
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