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• Reconfiguration in Post Euromaidan symbolic landscape: comparison of Kyiv and Transcarpathia

  142-164

  Ágnes Erőss

  Katalin Kovály

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  The relation between power and public space has been one of the main interest of geographical
  research in the last decades (Massey 1994, Mitchell 2003). Researches have illustrated that
  following a regime change, the symbolic space of the city – compiled of street names, statues
  and monuments – usually gets reconfigured. Following the Euromaidan, in 2015, the laws on
  decommunization were accepted in Ukraine, which disposed more comprehensibly than ever before the banishment of Communist symbols from the public space. The decommunization
  besides toponymy, entangled other elements of public space resulting in major shifts the urban
  landscape as well.
  Main interest of present paper is to study the major shifts in symbolic landscape in the capital,
  Kyiv and compare it to the processes that have taken place in the westernmost periphery of the
  country, Transcarpathia. Based on the examples of Uzhhorod, Berehove raion and Berehove, our
  further aim is to shed light on the role of locality and how local memory is represented in public
  space.

• The impact of recent migration flows on the number of Hungarians in Transcarpathia, Ukraine

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  Patrik Tátrai

  József Molnár

  István Molnár D.

  Katalin Kovály

  Ágnes Erőss

  Viktória Ferenc

  Krisztián Rákóczi

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  112

  According to the last Ukrainian census in 2001, 152 thousand people declared Hungarian
  ethnicity in Transcarpathia. Since that time, there is no reliable and up-to-date data on the
  ethno-demographic development of the region’s population. It is especially hard to register the
  migration flows particularly salient since the outbreak of the armed conflict in East Ukraine
  in 2014. Based on four data sources (official Ukrainian and Hungarian statistics and two
  representative surveys), the present study aims at revealing the volume of the permanent and
  temporary migration of Hungarians in Transcarpathia and its impact on their number. We
  found that the same migration flow is associated with various figures by each of the data sources
  conducted with different methods and by different actors. According to the more reliable surveys,
  9 to 14 thousand ethnic Hungarians emigrated from Transcarpathia since 2001; consequently,
  the number of Hungarians is estimated at approximately 130 thousand people in the beginning
  of 2017.