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Appleby Horse fair

June 3, 2025 Published by: Roma Foundation

The largest horse fair and gathering of travellers and Roma in the UK is almost there. A guide to it. But alos a tabloid article about communities barricading, the usual stereotypical rants.

Bad.

‘Nothing keeps them at bay..’ Furious locals turn their villages into FORTRESSES as thousands of travellers descend for controversial Appleby Horse Fair with police already being forced to handcuff a 10-year-old boy. In: Daily Mail. 01.06.2025. https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-14767513/cricket-pavilion-knife-threats-Locals-lock-Europe-gypsy-gathering.html
Appleby Horse Fair 2025: Everything you need to know from parking and what’s on to police warnings. In: Lancs. 02.06.2025. https://www.lancs.live/whats-on/appleby-horse-fair-2025-everything-31771114

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Atlas of Roma Communities

June 3, 2025 Published by: Roma Foundation

Data collection as part of the sociographic mapping of Roma communities will continue until the end of June. This was announced at a press conference on Tuesday by the Plenipotentiary of the Slovak Government for Roma Communities Alexander Daško and the staff of his office. The reason is the effort to integrate data from the maximum number of municipalities with a relevant presence of Roma communities into the census.

What is remarkable, is that this atlas doesn’t really coincide with the official census …

Daško: Zber dát do Atlasu rómskych komunít potrvá do konca júna. In: Teraz. 03.06.2025. https://www.teraz.sk/spravy/dasko-zber-dat-do-atlasu-romskych-ko/882888-clanok.html

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Transcarpathian Ukraine: Shootout

June 3, 2025 Published by: Roma Foundation

In a Roma settlement in Velykyi Berezne, in Transcarpathian Ukraine, right on the Slovak border, a confrontation between Ukrainian border guards and local Roma escalated. Background is not clear, but Roma threw stones at the border guards, and they fired live rounds. There are wounded, apparently on bth sides, although between stones and rifles, this can’t really be equitable.

Камни против пуль: в Закарпатье ромы устроили «разборки» с пограничниками, есть раненые с обеих сторон (фото, видео). In: Fakty. 30.05.2025. https://fakty.ua/ru/455030-kamni-protiv-pul-v-zakarpate-romy-ustroili-razborki-s-pogranichnikami-est-ranenye-s-obeih-storon-foto-video
Стрельба в ромском таборе на Закарпатье: есть раненые среди гражданских и пограничников. In: 24TV. 29.05.2025. https://24tv.ua/ru/strelba-v-velikom-bereznom-raneny-pogranichniki-i-mestnye-24-kanal_n2834476
В Закарпатье местные жители забросали камнями пограничников, есть раненые. Фото. In: https://gordonua.com/news/localnews/v-zakarpate-mestnye-zhiteli-zabrosali-kamnjami-pohranichnikov-est-ranenye-foto-1744027.html 30.05.2025.
На Закарпатье произошла стрельба между ромами и пограничниками. In: Apostroph. 29.05.2025. https://apostrophe.ua/news/society/accidents/2025-05-29/na-zakarpate-proizoshla-strelba-mejdu-romami-i-pogranichnikami/344227