Daily Archives: August 10, 2022

News Eastern Europe Ukraine

Ukraine and Roma

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Another article about Roma thieves in the Ukrainian press. This time in the Volyn region of Western Ukraine. On the pretext of telling fortune, Romnja walked into a home for the elderly and stole cash and jewellery.

This is bad on both sides: On the Romani side for stealing, as it reflects on the entire community, and on the Ukrainian side, because they fail to say that this is the consequence of utter poverty and exclusion, especially among Carpathian Roma.

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Bulgaria – What we don’t need

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An article about a fight involving pitchforks and axes between Roma in the Bulgarian city of Lom. As usual, this casts a bad light on Roma, and fails to mention the issues faced by Roma in theses Mahalas.

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Papusza

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A reportage on an exhibition in Żagan, in Western Poland, about the Romani Poetess Papusza. She lived there before moving to Gorzów Wielkopolski. She came from a group of Polish Roma. There were many artists in her family, playing at weddings or in taverns. She learned to read and write on her own. Her enormous talent was discovered by Jerzy Ficowski, supported by Julian Tuwim.

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