Rusins, Rusyns, Ruthenians?

[Margarita Orlova]

What I mean when quoting The Amer. Heritage Dictionary, is that Rusiny  
is the Russian name for the people, Rusyny is the Ukrainian name for  
the same people,
and the Ruthenians is the English name for the same people.
Should newcoming researchers multiply the entities needlessly?

To use "the Rusyns" instead "the Ruthenians" may imply the modern and  
(volatile?) political presumption to support the Orange Revolution on  
the Ukraine, may it?

Margarita

On Wednesday, December 12, 2007, at 04:16  PM, Margarita Orlova wrote:

> Ru·the·nia
>  A region of western Ukraine south of the Carpathian Mountains. Ruled  
> for centuries by various powers, including Poland and Austria-Hungary,  
> it was later a province of Czechoslovakia (1918-1939) and was annexed  
> by the USSR in 1945.
>
> Ru·the·ni·an
> adj.
>  Of or relating to Ruthenia, the Ruthenians, or their language or  
> culture.
> n.
> 1.  A native or inhabitant of Ruthenia.
> 2.  The variety of Ukrainian used by the Ruthenians
>
> The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth  
> Edition. 2004
>
>
> On Wednesday, December 12, 2007, at 11:49  AM, Svetlana Grenier wrote:
>
>> Ruthenians
>
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