Though Ukrainian Hungarians
consider Zakarpattia their small motherland, they prefer to have double
citizenship.
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To get to the boundary recreation
area
you can
only if you have ID |
The
residents of the small village Galabor are separated from Hungary by
the narrow river Tisza. The locals love to come and have picnics on its banks.
To get there you can only if you have
the identifying documents. Better not to cross the river as you
risk to get to the EU without visa and wearing only pants. Standing on the
bank, you can wave to the foreigners bathing on the opposite side. The biggest Hungarian diaspora
in Ukraine lives in the Beregovsky border region
of Zakarpattia - 75% of the population of the
district. Here the Western European Time is used, the children are called with Magyar names,
even spices in the market people try to buy Hungarian -
they are a little more expensive than Ukrainian, but
it is said that it tastes better, and without
any preservatives. It is popular to get a
second citizenship here. Since the beginning
of 2011 Hungary has simplified the procedure for
the Ukrainians. However, the holders of
two passports do not prefer to advertise it. They
quietly go to the nearest Hungarian village
council and submit their documents. In Beregovo there
are many horror stories about how
the perpetrators of Ukrainian law are
punished (in Ukraine double citizenship is
forbidden). People do not believe in rumours and did not have
any shame in having two passports in their pockets. It is rarely
paid attention in Beregovo towards which language you speak and to
which church you go. If there is any tension, it is only on political grounds. One
of the recent incidents - a scandal because of the
anthem of Hungary at the
meetingsof Beregovskogo District Council. The
deputies voted in favor of this decision, the local prosecutor's
office appealed to it.
Another
argument was because of the renewal of the old name of the village Beregsas
instead of the current Beregovo. The voting took place on the eve of local
elections. Turnout was bad, the picture of the voting was also damaged by Roma
community. The amount of the community increases due to the payments on the
birth of a child. They dropped into the ballot box empty ballots. Because of
this one thousand of forms were recognized as invalid.
As
a result, everybody sticks to their point: some invites guests to Berego,
others to Beregsas. But nobody lets to be lost because of national differences
as everybody are interested in tourists who will spend their money here.
For
many people here Hungarian is a native language and Russian and
Ukrainian is foreign. For young people there is no any language barriers
as many of them go for practice to big Hungarian cities and never come
back.
At
some moment you stop paying attention to the accent the everybody has here.
Local public servants get additional payment for knowledge of Hungarian as a
foreign language but rather Ukrainian and Russian are foreign languages here.
From here you can on the tour around Europe for 40 euro and many people have
their wedding rings on the left hand.
Resource: Focus.ua http://focus.ua/society/194334/
Another
argument was because of the renewal of the old name of the village Beregsas
instead of the current Beregovo. The voting took place on the eve of local
elections. Turnout was bad, the picture of the voting was also damaged by Roma
community. The amount of the community increases due to the payments on the
birth of a child. They dropped into the ballot box empty ballots. Because of
this one thousand of forms were recognized as invalid. 
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