DEAR MEMBERS OF THE EDITORIAL BOARD,  AUTHORS AND READERS!

The 11th year of the international historical journal Rusin has been productive. 

In the middle of 2015, we learned that in 2014 Rusin ranked 10th among history journals in Eastern Europe (http://scimagojr.com) indexed in Scopus, and entered the second quartile (Q2).

In the past year, Rusin and Tomsk State University held four international conferences and part of their proceedings was published in the journal.

In 2015, Rusin and Tomsk State University established a new journal, Rusin Journal Library, which publishes research on the history, culture and language of Rusins (Rusnaks), the indigenous population of the Carpathian-Dniester land, and proceedings of conferences held by the international historical journal Rusin. Rusin Journal Library (http://journals.tsu.ru/rusin_library) is issued quarterly. Three issues of the journal have already been published.

Next year we plan to issue a new journal in English, Rusin Studies. An Abstracts Journal.

In 2016, as in the previous year, we will publish four issues of the international historical journal Rusin. The topics the journal covers do not change: it is research on the history, culture and language of Rusins (Rusnaks), the indigenous population of the Carpathian-Dniester land. 

Rusin will also publish proceedings of four international scientific conferences it holds jointly with Tomsk State University:

1. Slavic Languages and Contemporary Challenges (May 13–14, 2016, Tomsk).

2. History of the Carpathian-Dniester Land From Ancient Times to the Early 21st Century. (The 100th Anniversary of the Brusilovsky Breakthrough) (May 24–25, 2016, Chisinau).

3. The Slavic World and Contemporary Challenges (October 7–9, 2016, Tomsk).

4. Inter-Ethnic Cooperation in the Area of Ethnic Contacts (Fifth Readings in Memory of I.A. Antsupov) (October 20–21, 2016, Chisinau).