Rusynia

Rusynia, officially the Republic of Rusynia is a country located along the western slopes of the Carpathian Mountains in Eastern Europe. Rusynia shares a unique border with four other nations: Slovakia, Hungary, Poland, Ruthneia, and Romania.

Rusynia was under the control of the Kingdom of Hungary throughout the 19th Century and by Czechoslovakia prior to World War II. Throughout the Cold War, Rusynia was organized as an Rusyn SSR, with the Rusyn people formally being labeled as being ethnically Ukrainian. These policies were relaxed as part of Mikhail Gorbachev's Glasnost policies. Following the ratification of the New Union Treaty in 1991, both the USSR and Ukraine allowed for a referendum to be held in Transcarpathia on whether they wished for greater autonomy, with over 80% of the population favoring this.