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The first stage of registering Russian community in Hungary has finished successfully. The National Voting Committee based on the application submitted by a private person (Ishtvan Debrei) has decided that the Russians have the right to consider themselves a national minority.
At the moment signatures are being collected. At least 1,000 signatures need to be gathered to register the community. Currently 1,500 ones have already been collected despite the holiday season. The process will finish in the end of summer. The signatures are collected on special forms distributed by the National Voting Committee.
At the next stage the Hungarian academy of science will have to prove that the Russian community has been present in Hungary for over 100 years (after the revolution White emigrants settled in Hungary, Anton Denikin and Pyotr Vrangel lived there for some time).
The last word in registering the Russian community will be the Hungarian Parliament's.
The official recognition as a national minority gives the Russian community several advantages. The community members will have collective rights. For example, they will be able to arrange local executive authorities. They will be also granted the right to sustain their independence.
Note, the campaign on registering the Russian community started in May 2018. According to the Hungarian legislation the application can be signed by the Russians and the people of Russian origin, as well as everyone supporting the incentive. The first attempt to register the Russian community as a national minority was taken back in the 90s, but it was declined then
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