In the early hours of March 11, 2014, extremists burned a [[Hungarian]] monument that was erected in the Verecke Pass in honor of the 1,100-year anniversary of the Hungarians’ crossing of the [[Carpathian Mountains]]. This incident triggered a series of anti-Hungarian actions against a backdrop of events directly or indirectly affecting the interests of the Hungarian minority in [[Transcarpathia]]. Representatives of the Svoboda party demanded that the country's prosecutor general ban the Democratic Party of Ukrainian Hungarians headed by the only deputy, the Transcarpathian Hungarian I. Gaidosh. The Svoboda party claimed responsibility for a similar action in 2011 defiling a Hungarian memorial in the Verecke Pass. Days after the 2014 vandalism, a group of Ukrainian nationalist radicals attacked Hungarian schoolchildren who were visiting Transcarpathia from Miskolc, Hungary. The same day armed extremists stormed a meeting of the Hungarian community council in the city of Beregovo in Transcarpathian province and beat its participants. | In the early hours of March 11, 2014, extremists burned a [[Hungarian]] monument that was erected in the Verecke Pass in honor of the 1,100-year anniversary of the Hungarians’ crossing of the [[Carpathian Mountains]]. This incident triggered a series of anti-Hungarian actions against a backdrop of events directly or indirectly affecting the interests of the Hungarian minority in [[Transcarpathia]]. Representatives of the Svoboda party demanded that the country's prosecutor general ban the Democratic Party of Ukrainian Hungarians headed by the only deputy, the Transcarpathian Hungarian I. Gaidosh. The Svoboda party claimed responsibility for a similar action in 2011 defiling a Hungarian memorial in the Verecke Pass. Days after the 2014 vandalism, a group of Ukrainian nationalist radicals attacked Hungarian schoolchildren who were visiting Transcarpathia from Miskolc, Hungary. The same day armed extremists stormed a meeting of the Hungarian community council in the city of Beregovo in Transcarpathian province and beat its participants. |