Category Archives: Bulgaria

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Vidin, Bulgaria, and the European Elections

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Dr. Tsvetan Tsenkov, the Mayor of the Vidin municipality, has decided to move the 8 polling stations that traditionally were located in the Roma neighbourhood of Nov Pat, to other parts of town. According to the mayor, this is to prevent irregularities and voter manipulation.

Well, it will also prevent man Roma from voting…

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Bulgaria: Fight

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An argument between Roma in the centre of Silistra, Bulgaria escalated in a fight and in a much larger gathering once the police intervened.

Always bad when the main reporting about Roma is due to fights and brawls.

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Bulgaria: Scam

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A story in the Bulgarian press about a scam on house reparation committed by Roma. These articles are dangerous, as they always show Roma as criminals and asocial people and contribute to more exclusion.

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Bulgaria and Romane Paramisja

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Children from Montana took part en masse in the contest for illustration of Roma fairy tales organized by the city’s Municipal Council. 139 children between the ages of five and 11 sent their drawings for the competition, announced the chairman of the council, Ivo Ivanov.

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Bulgaria, Schools, and Roma

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Segregated schools still exist in Bulgaria. In Germany, Roma children learn German in 6 months. In Bulgaria, they are forbidden to speak Romanes, and they do not know Bulgarian.

“Do you know how difficult it is to be a Rom in Bulgaria? A Bulgarian child doesn’t want to sit next to you at school. I’m still afraid if someone will want to sit next to me”  says Assoc. Prof. Yosif Nunev from the University of Veliko Tarnovo. He remembers the discussions about Roma inclusion 20 years ago – the only difference now is that the “politicians and the political” are different. “In 40 years, they learned 20-30 new terms. However, the attitude of the Bulgarians has not changed at all, it has even become more critical in some places,” says his colleague Hristo Kyuchukov, professor of intercultural education. Both are adamant that until segregated schools are abolished, nothing different will happen in the next 20 years.

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Bulgaria and Integration

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A public mediator will assist in the integration of the Roma in the Ruse region. The Open Society Club in the Danube city and the Regional Administration are starting a new project, the aim of which is to increase the access of Roma from the region to administrative services and justice.

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Bulgaria: Attack

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Three young Roma apparently attacked a person at a bus stop. That person had told them to be quieter.

This is bad.

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Bulgaria, Roma and Domestic Violence

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The degree of recognition of domestic violence among Roma women and children is still low. This is according to an analysis carried out in the framework of a project funded under the Justice Program of the Norwegian Financial Mechanism. The data was released at a closing conference on the various forms of violence in Yambol.

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Bulgaria, Germany, and an Attack

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The facts: a 21 year old Bulgarian-German dual citizen attacked two children in Duisburg with a knife and severely wounded them. The motive is totally unclear at this stage.

The Bulgarian press speaks of a “slaughter” and says that the person is of Roma origins… The fact that the article contradicts itself (the title says the attacker is 17 and the article says he is 21) shows how serious this article is.

Bad.

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Bulgaria, Police, and Roma

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The project “Improving coordination and dialogue between the police and the Roma community”, financed under the “Internal Works” Program of the Norwegian Financial Mechanism,  is equipping and renovating police reception centres  in Roma neighborhoods in Varna.

They are part of a total of 20 reception centres in Roma neighborhoods in oBulgaria – in Sofia, Burgas, Varna, Pazardzhik, Plovdiv, Stara Zagora, Vidin, Montana, Sliven and Yambol. The renovated reception areas will create better working conditions for police officers and be a point of contact for local communities when problems arise.

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Romeo and Juliet

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A new reading of “Romeo and Juliet” is being prepared in Belogradchik, Bulgaria. A story of modern Romeo and Juliet, between Roma and Bulgarians will be told by a Bulgarian-Roma theatrical production. The idea is of the People’s Community Center “Razvitie” in Belogradchik.

Well not quite, the Roma Theatre Pralipe had this idea during the siege of Sarajevo.

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Photo Voices

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Another article in the Bulgarian press about Photo Voice – a traveling exhibition of women’s advocacy clubs under the “I have a dream” project, is visiting Rakitovo with an exhibition of photos of 20 professionally successful Romnja.

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Bulgaria: Romnja

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The exhibition “PhotoVoice” of the women’s advocacy club of the association LARGO Kyustendil under the motto “A Romni is ….” is presented by Sasho Kovachev from the Association in “Our Day”.

According to him, the photo exhibition is dedicated to successful Roma women and is part of a larger initiative, of a larger project called “I have a dream”. He also shared that a collection of short stories named “The Price of Success” has already been published as part of the initiative.

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Bulgaria – Puppet Theatre

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Eighteen Romane children will appear on the stage of the Sliven puppet theater in the performance “The Bird of Happiness”. Evelina Kösovska, who directed and dramatized the play, said this at a press conference today. The children, who are fourth-graders from the “Miladinovi Brothers” and “Yuri Gagarin” elementary schools, in addition to being actors, participated in the creation of the show based on Romany fairy tales and legends.

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Vasilitsa

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On the occasion of the Vasilitsa holiday, celebrated by Roma as the beginning of the New Year, children from the secondary school “Traiko Simeonov” in Shumen visited Prime Minister Nikolay Denkov in the Council of Ministers. According to the article, they were “dressed in traditional costumes for the ethnic group” which is utter nonsense.

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Bulgaria and Romnja

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A traveling exhibition showcass the many faces of successful Roma women. It shows successful Romnja – entrepreneur, social worker, mother, singer, small business owner, hairdresser, student, pharmacist.

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