Editing Rusyn language (section)

==== Post-Soviet developments ====
[[File:Vojvodina rusyn croatian czech map.png|thumb|200px|right|Official usage of [[Pannonian Rusyn]] in [[Vojvodina]], Serbia]]

After the [[dissolution of the Soviet Union]] in 1991, modern standards of minority rights were gradually applied throughout Eastern Europe, thus affecting the attitude of several states towards the Rusyn language. As successors of Yugoslavia, [[Serbia]] and [[Croatia]] continued to recognize the Rusyn language as an official minority language.<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.skupstinavojvodine.gov.rs/?s=aktAPV001&j=EN |title=Statute of the Autonomous Province of Vojvodina |publisher=Skupstinavojvodine.gov.rs |access-date=2012-08-07 |archive-date=3 March 2012 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120303072347/http://www.skupstinavojvodine.gov.rs/?s=aktAPV001&j=EN |url-status=live }}</ref>

Scholars with the former Institute of Slavic and Balkan Studies in Moscow (now the Institute of Slavonic Studies of the Russian Academy of Sciences) formally acknowledged Rusyn as a separate language in 1992, and trained specialists to study the language.<ref>{{cite news |author=Іван Гвать |url=http://www.radiosvoboda.org/content/article/24433107.html |title=Україна в лещатах російських спецслужб |newspaper=Радіо Свобода |date=25 December 2011 |publisher=Radiosvoboda.org |access-date=2012-08-07 |archive-date=5 June 2012 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120605001017/http://www.radiosvoboda.org/content/article/24433107.html |url-status=live }}</ref> These studies were financially supported by the Russian Academy of Sciences.

Since 1995, Rusyn has been recognized as a [[minority language]] in [[Slovakia]], enjoying the status of an [[official language]] in municipalities where more than 20 percent of the inhabitants speak Rusyn.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.mensiny.vlada.gov.sk/data/files/418.doc|title=Zákon 184/1999 Z. z. o používaní jazykov národnostných menšín|last=Slovenskej Republiky|first=Národná Rada|year=1999|publisher=Zbierka zákonov|language=sk|access-date=2010-05-18|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20171011131038/http://www.mensiny.vlada.gov.sk/data/files/418.doc|archive-date=11 October 2017|url-status = dead|df=dmy-all}}</ref>