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News Eastern Europe Ukraine

AGAIN!!!

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This time in Lviv – another attack against a Roma camp. The camp was burnt down.
This time the police reacted a bit faster … This happened on My 9th according to the Ukrainian Ombudsman website.

– Camp of Roma people was burned in Lviv, – Ombudsman. In: 112 International. 11.05.2018. https://112.international/ukraine-top-news/camp-of-roma-people-was-burned-in-lviv-ombudsman-28426.html
– http://www.ombudsman.gov.ua/ua/all-news/pr/10518-dq-na-perekonannya-upovnovazhenogo-nepoodinoki-proyavi-ksenofobiii-potre/ [link-preview url=”https://112.international/ukraine-top-news/camp-of-roma-people-was-burned-in-lviv-ombudsman-28426.html “]

Bosnia News Eastern Europe

Džurdjevan

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Pictures and a a story around the celebrations of St. Goerge’s day among Bosnian Roma.

– AP PHOTOS: Bosnian Roma celebrate St. George’s Day. In: The Washington Post. 10.05.2018. https://www.washingtonpost.com/world/europe/ap-photos-bosnian-roma-celebrate-st-georges-day/2018/05/10/cd66ca50-5431-11e8-a6d4-ca1d035642ce_story.html?utm_term=.c687d1e7eead [link-preview url=”https://www.washingtonpost.com/world/europe/ap-photos-bosnian-roma-celebrate-st-georges-day/2018/05/10/cd66ca50-5431-11e8-a6d4-ca1d035642ce_story.html?utm_term=.c687d1e7eead”]

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Viktoria Mohacsi

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The Hungarian Romni, lawyer and former member of the parliament, Viktoria Mohacsi, was granted asylum in Canada. Her application had been initially dismissed in 2016/2017. She fled to Canada in 2011 following her criticisms of the handling of the case of the Roma murders in several localities at the time in Hungary.

– Politikai menedékjogot kapott Kanadában az egykori SZDSZ-es roma EP-képviselő. In: Index. 11.05.2018. https://index.hu/kulfold/2018/05/11/politikai_menedekjogot_kapott_kanadaban_az_egykori_szdsz-es_roma_ep-kepviselo/ [link-preview url=”https://index.hu/kulfold/2018/05/11/politikai_menedekjogot_kapott_kanadaban_az_egykori_szdsz-es_roma_ep-kepviselo/”]

News Eastern Europe Slovakia

Contagious

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A study on ethnic hostility has been conducted in Eastern Slovakia. The results (albeit on a small sample of 327 youngsters) showed clearly that people in a group showing hostility towards a minority (in this case Roma) were more inclined to do so themselves.
Not really surprising.

– ETHNIC HOSTILITY CAN BE CONTAGIOUS. In: Pacific Standard. 11.05.2018. https://psmag.com/social-justice/ethnic-hostility-can-be-contagious [link-preview url=”https://psmag.com/social-justice/ethnic-hostility-can-be-contagious”]

News Eastern Europe Romania

Roma in Cannes

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An interview in a French / Belgian magazine of the actress Alina Serban, a Romanian Romni who stars in the movie “Seule à mon marriage” – Alone at my wedding.
Well done!

– Cannes 2018 : Interview exclusive de l’actrice Alina Serban à l’affiche de « Seule à mon mariage ». In: Marie Claire. 10.05.2018. http://marieclaire.be/fr/interview-alina-serban-seule-a-mon-mariage/ [link-preview url=”http://marieclaire.be/fr/interview-alina-serban-seule-a-mon-mariage/”]

News Eastern Europe Slovakia

Red Skirt

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Not really sure about an exhibition in Slovakia entitled “Red Skirt” and retracing the way Roma have dressed in the country from their arrival in the middle ages to last century. The difficulty here is always the stereotypes and their perpetuation.

– Červenú sukňu mám… Myturiec. 04.05.2018. https://myturiec.sme.sk/c/20816013/cervenu-suknu-mam.html [link-preview url=”https://myturiec.sme.sk/c/20816013/cervenu-suknu-mam.html”]

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Djudjevan in Berlin

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The Berlin police intervened last Sunday in a park after finding a group of Roma roasting entire lambs on a spit for Djudjevan. They had to leave but other than that, no further actions were taken. The Roma were from Croatia and Bosnia.

– Romi iz BiH in Hrvaške so kar sredi berlinskega parka postavili žar in si pekli ovce. In: Reporter. 09.05.2018. https://reporter.si/clanek/magazin/romi-iz-bih-in-hrvaske-so-kar-sredi-berlinskega-parka-postavili-zar-in-si-pekli-ovce-637422
– Sredi Berlina skupina Romov pekla jagenjčke na ražnju. In: Primorske Novice. 08.05.2018. https://www.primorske.si/zanimivosti/sredi-berlina-skupina-romov-pekla-jagenjcke-na-raz [link-preview url=”https://reporter.si/clanek/magazin/romi-iz-bih-in-hrvaske-so-kar-sredi-berlinskega-parka-postavili-zar-in-si-pekli-ovce-637422 “]

News Eastern Europe Ukraine

Ukraine: Police Announces Suspects

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The Ukrainian police announced at last that they have identified suspects in the violent closing of a Roma camp in Kiev on April 21st.
They had trouble explaining what took them so long with the number of videos produced by the criminals themselves …

– Разгром лагеря ромов в Киеве: полиция объявила подозрения. In: Liga. 07.05.2018. http://news.liga.net/incidents/news/razgrom-lagerya-romov-v-kieve-politsiya-obyavila-podozreniya
– Разгон ромов в Киеве: Аваков похвалился успехами. In: Obozrevatel. 07.05.2018. https://www.obozrevatel.com/kiyany/answer/za-razgrom-romov-v-kieve.htm
– Погром лагеря ромов в Киеве: полиция объявила подозрения. In: Korrespondent. 07.05.2018. https://korrespondent.net/city/kiev/3968573-pohrom-laheria-romov-v-kyeve-polytsyia-obiavyla-podozrenyia
– Аваков рассказал о подозрениях в деле о поджоге лагеря ромов. In: Vesti. 07.05.2018. https://vesti-ukr.com/kiev/288213-avakov-rasskazal-o-podozrenijakh-v-dele-o-podzhohe-laherja-romov [link-preview url=”https://www.obozrevatel.com/kiyany/answer/za-razgrom-romov-v-kieve.htm “]

News Eastern Europe Romania

The Unknown Florence Roma

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An article about Romanian Roma migrants in Florence, their work and a person helping them.

– The maverick’s ministry. In: The Florentine. 06.05.2018. http://www.theflorentine.net/lifestyle/2018/05/english-cemetery-florence-julia-holloway/ [link-preview url=”http://www.theflorentine.net/lifestyle/2018/05/english-cemetery-florence-julia-holloway/”]

Hungary News Eastern Europe

Nograd and Roma

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An article about the Roma in Nograd, a region North East of Budapest, amongst the poorest in the country. A study has just been published and its results are not good.
Segregation has increased, something that anyone visiting the region can testify to.

– Dans le nord de la Hongrie, la situation se dégrade pour les familles roms. In: Le Courrier d’Europe Centrale. 30.04.2018. https://courrierdeuropecentrale.fr/nord-hongrie-enfants-roms-condamnes-misere/ [link-preview url=”https://courrierdeuropecentrale.fr/nord-hongrie-enfants-roms-condamnes-misere/”]

News Eastern Europe Slovakia

Slovakia: Subsidies and Roma

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A controversy is brewing in Slovakia on the allocation of subsidies for the culture of minorities. A commission was created to allocate the funds, but its members associations and families were allowed to bid for subsidies. Not good and bad publicity.

– Pred veľkou hostinou mali predjedlo: otec tvoril zákon, syn schválil dotácie. In: Aktuality. 04.05.2018. https://www.aktuality.sk/clanok/586262/velka-hostina-mala-predjedlo-otec-tvoril-zakon-syn-daval-dotacie/ [link-preview url=”https://www.aktuality.sk/clanok/586262/velka-hostina-mala-predjedlo-otec-tvoril-zakon-syn-daval-dotacie/”]

Croatia News Eastern Europe

Roma and Croatia

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28% of the Roma in Croatia feel discriminated against… Only?
Most of the Roma in Croatia came after the War as the Ustaša killed almost all Croatian Roma during the war.

– Many Roma feel discriminated against. In: Total Croatia News. 04.05.2018. https://www.total-croatia-news.com/politics/28003-many-roma-feel-discriminated-against [link-preview url=”https://www.total-croatia-news.com/politics/28003-many-roma-feel-discriminated-against”]

News Eastern Europe Slovakia

We don’t need that

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Again, in typical fashion, bad journalism based on a crime. And all stereotypes are there. We don’t need this and neither do we need these kinds of criminals.

– Roma slave gang who splashed out on champagne parties and lavish holidays with cash stuffed in suitcases after trafficking victims from Slovakia to Newcastle are jailed for a total of 40 years. In: Daily Mail. 04.05.2018. http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-5692301/Roma-slave-gang-jailed-total-40-years.html
– Victims told they should be ‘eating dogs’ by Roma slave gang who trafficked them from Slovakia to Newcastle reveal years of hell as their tormentors face years in jail. In: Daily Mail. 03.05.2018. http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-5687831/Victims-told-eating-dogs-Roma-slave-gang.html [link-preview url=”http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-5692301/Roma-slave-gang-jailed-total-40-years.html “]

News Eastern Europe Slovakia

Slovakia, Police, and Roma

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In 2009, several policemen were accused of having abused Roma after their arrest in Košice. The case has been in court ever since. The appeal court effectively cleared the policemen in a controversial judgement staing that the testimonies of the victims were contradictory.
The regional court of Košice cancelled the verdict from the appeal court and referred the case back to the lower court.
Good, let’s hope this continues!

– Kauza policajnej šikany Rómov sa vracia na súd. In: Trend. 04.05.2018. https://www.etrend.sk/ekonomika/kauza-policajnej-sikany-romov-sa-vracia-na-sud.html [link-preview url=”https://www.etrend.sk/ekonomika/kauza-policajnej-sikany-romov-sa-vracia-na-sud.html”]

Hungary News Eastern Europe

Hungary: Racism

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Members of the Roma band “Pasrno Grast” were refused entry in a disco in Budapest on most probably on the grounds of them being Roma. This in spite of the fact that the band is well known in Hungary and its concerts are attended by many non-Roma Hungarians.
Unfortunately, not surprising in Hungary.

– Nem engedték be egy pesti diszkóba a roma Parno Graszt zenekar tagjait. In: Index Culture. 29.04.2018. https://index.hu/kultur/2018/04/29/parno_graszt_diszko_diszkriminacio/ [link-preview url=”https://index.hu/kultur/2018/04/29/parno_graszt_diszko_diszkriminacio/”]

News Eastern Europe Slovakia

Slovakia: Controversy

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A controversy erupted in Slovakia about subsidies for culture. The Slovak Fund for the Promotion of the Culture of National Minorities set money aside for the Roma. It now turns out that the organisations whose members sat on the committee for the attribution of these funds received a large part of them.
Young Roma signed a petition and pointed out that several of these organisations did not have their headquarters clearly identified and did not really engage in the activities for which they received funds.

– Dostali dotácie, o ktorých mali sami rozhodovať. SNS zvoláva výbor. In: SME Domov. 30.04.2018. https://domov.sme.sk/c/20815692/romovia-parlamentny-vybor-sns-dotacie-romska-kultura-fpknm.html [link-preview url=”https://domov.sme.sk/c/20815692/romovia-parlamentny-vybor-sns-dotacie-romska-kultura-fpknm.html”]

News Eastern Europe Slovakia

Slovakia: Work

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The rapid fall of unemployment in Slovakia is helping Roma: They are increasingly being hired. Currently, one estimates that there are around 100’000 unemployed Roma in the country.

– Pracovný boom nahráva aj Rómom. No k práci sa dostávajú ako poslední. In: HN Slovensko. 27.04.2018. https://slovensko.hnonline.sk/1735402-pracovny-boom-nahrava-aj-romom-no-k-praci-sa-dostavaju-ako-posledni [link-preview url=”https://slovensko.hnonline.sk/1735402-pracovny-boom-nahrava-aj-romom-no-k-praci-sa-dostavaju-ako-posledni”]

Czech Republic News Eastern Europe

Jacob’s Colours

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The novel about the Roma Holocaust and its victims, Jacob’s Colours, has been translated into Czech… Let’s hope it is also read.

– Novel about the Holocaust and its Romani victims, “Jacob’s Colours”, now in Czech translation. In: Romea. 30.04.2018. http://www.romea.cz/en/news/czech/novel-about-the-holocaust-and-its-romani-victims-jacob-s-colours-now-in-czech-translation [link-preview url=”http://www.romea.cz/en/news/czech/novel-about-the-holocaust-and-its-romani-victims-jacob-s-colours-now-in-czech-translation”]

News Eastern Europe Slovakia

Slovakia: Segregation

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The Roma Monitoring Report, prepared for the European Commission notes several cases of blatant segregation in the Slovak school system. Children are put in special school (nothing new), and teachers of such schools were even documented offering bribes to the parents to get the children in their schools. In many cases, the children were almost automatically “diagnosed” with mental illness, boosting the revenue of the school.
Clearly, these schools do not do much in matters of education.
SHAME!

– Segregácia Rómov sa presúva zo základných škôl už aj na stredné. In: Slovensko Honline. 25.04.2018. https://slovensko.hnonline.sk/1734001-segregacia-romov-sa-presuva-zo-zakladnych-skol-uz-aj-na-stredne [link-preview url=”https://slovensko.hnonline.sk/1734001-segregacia-romov-sa-presuva-zo-zakladnych-skol-uz-aj-na-stredne”]

News Eastern Europe Ukraine

Ukraine: Another one!!!

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A new video of an attack against Roma – this time arson – surfaced in Ukraine. This shortly after the Pogrom that was widely commented. Here, people are seen setting fire to a flat in a privately owned house occupied by Roma.

– https://youtu.be/rOGHYMOIYgE
Опубликовано видео, как радикалы сожгли дом ромов в Киеве. In: РИА Новости Украина. 27.04.2018. https://rian.com.ua/video/20180427/1034675249/Kiev-radikaly-sozhgli-dom-romov.html [link-preview url=”https://youtu.be/rOGHYMOIYgE “]

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