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112.ua: Hungary to start free courses of Ukrainian language in Zakarpattya

By 112.ua.

Published Dec. 19, 2018 at 2:00 pm

Hungarian and Ukrainian national flags are displayed outside the city council building of Berehove, a city of 24,000 people in Zakarpattya Oblast, some 800 kilometers southwest of Kyiv and only about 10 kilometers from the border with Hungary.

Photo by Volodymyr Petrov

The Hungarian government will open the free Ukrainian language courses for the ethnic Hungarians living in Zakarpattya. The classes are supposed to begin in early 2019, Yevropeiska Pravda reported.

Istvan Greza, the Ministerial Envoy for Transborder Regional Cooperation reported that the initiative aims to reduce the Ukrainian-Hungarian tensions.