International Relations Issues in the Yuliian Tarnovych Journalistic Work (Twenty Years of the Interwar Period)

The purpose of the article is to study the features of Yu. Tarnovych’s articulation of the multi-layered issue of international relations in the newspaper Nash Lemko(Our Lemko). The article aims to provide a comprehensive reconstruction of Yu. Tarnovych’s work in the newspaper Nash Lemko, which was dedicated to the relations of Ukrainians with Poles, Russians, and Jews. The research methodology is based on the combination of principles (historicism and objectivity) and methods (philosophical, general scientific, and special-historical) of scientific research, which is usual for works on the history of science. Summarising the work of Yu. Tarnovych devoted to the issues of international relations presented on the pages of Nash Lemko, it is noted that its content was determined by life itself. After all, in his daily life, the Ruthenian was often frustrated by the aggressive national and fiscal policy of the Polish state, Russian agitators with Bolshevik and Muscophile slogans, as well as the desire for unjust profit from Jewish innkeepers and resellers. All this prompted the editor of the first Ruthenian newspaper to deep reflection on difficult relations with neighbours from a historical perspective and in the realities of today. The consequences of such reflection for Yu. Tarnovych were the teaching of his  Lemko readers to resist the manipulations of uninvited guests. Sometimes, as it was in the Jewish case, such advice was influenced by the xenophobia prevalent on the eve of the Second World War and harmed the Ruthenians themselves in their attempts to find a model of possible harmonious inter-ethnic coexistence with inconvenient neighbours. However, in general, the journalistic work of the editor of Nash Lemko contributed to the establishment of the Sobornost ideology and values of public activism in the Ruthenian environment. This helped the Lemkos to acquire the necessary unity and stability in times of global confrontation, to quickly self-organise after being expelled from their native lands, and to build an equal dialogue with representatives of different peoples in their new countries of residence.