Who carpathian rusyns are?

for more than a thousand years in remote villages scattered along the foothills and valleys of the Carpathian Mountains of East Central Europe.
Their villages were located mostly among those of Western Slavs (Slovaks and Poles), Hungarians (Magyars), Romanians (Vlachs) and Ukrainians.
The name Rusyn identifies them as descendants, in part, of a people from the vast lands of ancient Rus' who were converted to the Eastern Christian Church in the 9th century. Rusyn can, in fact be interpreted as inhabitant of Rus'
Over the years, Rusyns have also been known by a variety of other names - Carpatho-Russians, Carpatho-Ukrainians, Rusnaks, Ruthenes, Ruthenians, Uhro-Rusyns and Podkarpats'ki Rusyny, to name a few. Rusyns typically referred to themselves as Rusnaks or Lemko for those who settled on the northern slopes of the Carpathians. 

are classified as East Slavic, but because they live in a borderland region Carpatho-Rusyn dialects are heavily influenced by Polish, Slovak, and Hungarian vocabulary. These influences, together with numerous terms from the Church Slavonic liturgical language and vocabulary unique to Carpatho-Rusyns, are what distinguish their spoken language from other East Slavic languages like Ukrainian.
In contrast to their West Slavic (Polish and Slovak), Magyar, and Romanian neighbors, Carpatho-Rusyns use the Cyrillic alphabet. Their national name, Rusyn, connects them to the east, since Rus' was the name of the inhabitants and territory of a large medieval state centered in Kiev. The many names by which Carpatho-Rusyns have called themselves or were called by others--Carpatho-Russian, Carpatho-Ukrainian, Rusnak, Ruthene, Ruthenian, Uhro-Rusyn--all relate to their traditional association with the East Slavic world of the Rus'.

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Hutsul family, 1925–1939

Ruthenian costume from Petrovci, Croatia

and in forest-related occupations. The mountainous landscape that characterized Carpathian Rus' never allowed for extensive agricultural production. As a result, Carpatho-Rusyns were usually poor and were often forced to survive by working in neighboring countries or by emigrating permanently abroad, most especially to the United States.

Rusyns as a separate nation. And this despite the fact that almost one and a half million Rusyns live in the USA, Canada, Australia, Yugoslavia, Slovakia, Poland, the Czech Republic, Romania, Hungary, and everywhere they are quietly recognized as an independent nationality, except for Ukraine, where this issue is taboo no less than the word "Federalization".
And the barbaric hatred of Kiev officials to the very word "Rusyns" is not explained by anything other than relic neanderthalism. Books in the Russian language, the press are forbidden, children are forbidden to study in their native language. And no “movable” law, which Poroshenko was so proud of (it is nevertheless directed specifically against the Russians), will help. Because Rusyns are not initially recognized as a separate nation.