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Old April 26th, 2009 #2
Mark Kerpolt
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My guess is Marmatian Rutheneans? In the Romanian region of Maramureş with a sizable Ruthenean, or Russyn, minority.

Rutheneans are interesting. The majority of them appear to make up a huge part of nowadays' Ukrainians, though a lot also prefer to consider themselves Russian instead. From what I understand — as their name more or less suggests — they're actually core descendants of Kievan Ruś.