Category Archives: News Eastern Europe

News Eastern Europe Serbia

Serbia: EU Roma Project

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The municipality of Zvezdara, next to Belgrade, is participating in the second phase of the “Romakted” project, which is financed by the Council of Europe and the European Union, and concerns the promotion of good governance and support for Roma at the local levely.

The President of the Zvezdara municipality, Vladan Jeremić, handed over equipment to two associations from Veliki Mokrog Lug, which deal with Roma inclusion, in the presence of representatives of the Council of Europe and members of those associations.

News Eastern Europe Poland

All Saints Day in Poland

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An article about Roma celebrations in the cemetery in Wrocław. Polish Roma honour the departed on November 1st, eating drinking, and making music on their graves.

News Eastern Europe Poland

Poland: Conflict

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A conflict is brewing between residents of the village of Koszary in the Limanowa district. Roma illegally burn cables in their housing estate to get metals from them. “The stench is so bad you can’t breathe,” say the residents of Koszary. The residents say Roma react very aggressively to all the comments against them. This is confirmed by the recent situation when the residents of the estate beat up the TVP team that was making a program about the situation in the village.

News Eastern Europe Serbia

Romanes in Belgrade

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By decision of the Teaching and Scientific Council of the Faculty of Philology of the University of Belgrade, since April 15, 2015, the teaching of the Romani language has been included in the basic academic studies of this higher education institution.

Within the Centre for Professional Development and Evaluation, the Faculty has been organizing Romani language courses for years, which enables graduated teachers to obtain certificates of knowledge of the Romani language and join regular classes in primary and secondary schools where the subject Romani language with elements of the national language is taught. culture.

About 600 students attend this language in schools.

News Eastern Europe Poland

Slums in Poland

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The social housing estate at ul. Sobieskiego in Bielsko-Biała was built in the 1990s. These are five one-story blocks with tiny apartments of a very low standard, where one bathroom and a toilet are shared between several apartments. Something for something, because the rent for the apartments was very low. There are quite a few Roma there too. With such a concentration of poverty, the estate the estate has gained very bad reputation.

Bulgaria News Eastern Europe

Bulgaria, Voting, and Roma

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An article about local elections in Bulgaria. Two facts: Very few Roma vote, with a turnout in some of the Roma settlements of less than 10%, and in addition, invalid ballots make up to 40%. The article reviews several elections in various large Roma settlements such as Fakulteta in Sofia and Stolipinovo in Plovdiv.

News Eastern Europe Poland

Poland, Cemeteries, and Roma

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Roma graves are often impressive. In this way, they honour those who have departed. These are family graves, and the richer the family, the more impressive it gets.

News Eastern Europe Poland

Limanowa, Poland, and Roma

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The mayor of Limanowa, Poland, on solving the issue of a Roma settlement with funds from the state and the reactions of the people. This saga has lasted several years, and the city was repeatedly condemned by the Ombudsman.

Hungary News Eastern Europe Slovakia

Exhibition on Roma and the Holocaust

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In the gallery of the City History Museum in Fiľakovo, Slovakia, visitors will be able to view the exhibition of the Dutch photographer Jutka Rona entitled Hungarian Gypsies – Survivors’ Testimony dedicated to the memory of the Hungarian Roma holocaust.

Hungarian-born photographer Jutka Rona was two years old when her parents immigrated to the Netherlands.

Lithuania News Eastern Europe

Lithuania: End of a Project

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The restaurant “Gypsy Lounge & Grill” of the leader of the Roma community, singer Ištvans Kviks recently closed its doors. The place, full of culture, gathered a lot of people both on weekends and on weekdays. As the restaurant owner testified, it was a place that destroyed stereotypes about Roma people. He said that  “Our task was to introduce Roma cuisine to the public, but unfortunately, the three-year project ended. Our main task was to recruit Roma people. We employed a lot of Roma, and without a higher education, they are now working on their own, creating their own lives.”

Hungary News Eastern Europe

Hungary: Special Exhibition

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On November 5, the World Day of the Romani Language, the Museum of Ethnography in Budapest invites for a temporary exhibition on Roma stories. The foundation of the exhibition, which opened on May 23 this year, is quite extraordinary: the Kamill Erdős legacy has been preserved in the collection of the Ferenc Erkel Museum in Gyula. For the first time, the interested public can see the results of the research conducted among Roma in Hungary in the 19th century.

Czech Republic News Eastern Europe

Ida Kelarová

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The Romani singer and activist Ida Kelarová eceived from the hands of Czech President Petr Pavel the state award, the Medal for services to the state in the field of culture, education and education.

She is the first Romni to get this award and only the third person of Romani heritage to do so.

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Moldova News Eastern Europe

Moldova and Education

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Roma pupils and students with good academic performance will receive scholarships of up to 1,200 lei if they pass a competition organized by the Agency for Interethnic Relations. The decision was approved by the Moldovan government.

Montenegro News Eastern Europe

Montenegro: Dictionary

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The promotion of the Dictionary of the Roma-Montenegrin and Montenegrin-Roma language / Rromengo alavari by Dr. Hedina Tahirović-Sijerčić was held in the National Library “Radosav Ljumović” in Podgorica, Montenegro. The publisher of the Dictionary is the JU Centre for the Preservation and Development of Minority Culture of Montenegro.

Czech Republic News Eastern Europe

The Czech Floyd

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Stanislav Tomáš, who died two years ago in the summer after an intervention by the police, has a new tombstone at the Teplice cemetery. The police was exonerated, a conclusion that many did not accept. On his tomb, there is simply the word “Pativ”, here standing for respect.

News Eastern Europe North Macedonia

North Macedonia: Resistance Exhibition

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North Macedonian President Stevo Pendarovski visited the exhibition “Roma partisans – photos and biographies” authored by Daniel Petrovski, organized by the Association of Romani Folk Art Lovers “Romano Ilo” – Skopje. The exhibition presents 50 Roma fighters who participated in various brigades and divisions in the NOB during the Second World War.

Czech Republic News Eastern Europe

Ida Kelarová

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On Saturday, Czech President Petr Pavel will award state honours to more than 60 personalities. The Castle does not want to publish the specific names of the awardees until the ceremonyAccording to information from Lidové noviny, singer and guitarist Vladimír Mišík or Romani singer Ida Kelarová could be the next awardees.

Ida Kelarovà would thus be the third person of Romani origin and the first Romni to receive this distinction.

News Eastern Europe Slovenia

Murska Sobota Festival of Roma culture

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The Roma Culture Festival started on Thursday at the Youth and Cultural Club in Murska Sobota. The Roma Association of Slovenia has been preparing the music and dance event for more than 10 years. Roma and non-Roma music and dance groups, musicians of various nationalities, and Roma and non-Roma children will perform under the slogan All the same – all different.

News Eastern Europe Poland

Poland: Exhibition

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An exhibition of photographs by Arkadiusz Gola about the Silesian Roma community at the Schoen Palace in Sosnowiec, close to Katowice, Poland, is opening on October 26th.

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