Born in Irshava, a small town in the Transcarpathian region in western Ukraine, Taras Tsohla speaks Ukrainian, Russian, Rusyn, English and now Slovak as well as a little German. The town, in which most citizens were Rusyns (east Slavs living in the Transcarpathian area covering parts of today’s Ukraine, Poland, Slovakia and Hungary, ed.) in the past, used to be part of the first Czechoslovak republic from 1918 to 1938. Taras has been studying international relations in Banská Bystrica, central Slovakia, for three and a half years. The 20-year-old arrived here before the war to do his bachelor’…