Russia’s national REN TV channel published a story claiming that Transcarpathia, a regions in western Ukraine bordering on Hungary, separated economically from the Ukrainian capital Kyiv.
According to the REN story, Transcarpathia voted to go on its own economically with a view to separating from Kyiv completely in the future because the capital had forgotten about the region and was not financing its needs.
![Websire screenshot ukrstat.gov.ua](http://www.stopfake.org/content/uploads/2016/10/ren2-1.jpg)
The Transcarpathian regional council voted to establish direct economic cooperation with the Upper Franconia region of Bavaria, neither the council nor its chairman proposed that the region separate from Kyiv.
![Website radiosvoboda.org](http://www.stopfake.org/content/uploads/2016/10/ren3-1.jpg)
This story is a typical example of fake separatist news that Russian media propagate, particularly about regions such as Transcarpathia, where national minorities constitute a significant part of the local population.