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News Eastern Europe Slovakia

Win!

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Win!

Nine Roma who sued for having been evicted under the pretext of “waste collection” in 2012 by the then mayor Richard Raši (then Smer, now Hlas) from their homes in the Nižné Kapustníky district of Košice, have finally won in court.

It is a moral win, they lost their homes and were awarded 1’000 EUR each…

News Eastern Europe Slovakia

Slovakia, Covid, and Roma

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According to the Slovak Government, patients from the Roma community are twice as likely to die from Covid than the rest of the population. It is a combination of low vaccination, low living standards, insufficient health knowledge and high population density in these communities.

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Ireland, Slovakia, and Roma

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Ireland, Slovakia, and Roma

The person arrested for the murder of a young teacher, Ashling Murphy, is a Slovak, and apparently also Rom. This is bad. A Slovak MP, Peter Pollak, urged to refrain from collective guilt on Roma.

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Ireland, Slovakia, and Roma

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Ireland, Slovakia, and Roma

The Slovak view on the intervention of the Slovak MP Peter Pollak on the arrest of a suspect for the murder of the Irish teacher Ashling Murphy.

Bulgaria News Eastern Europe

Bulgaria and Roma

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Bulgaria and Roma

The Bulgarian State tries to fight the misery of the Roma with strategies. Another one is currently being prepared. The goal is the integration of Roma.

According to the article, “It did not happen during the so-called Decade of Roma Inclusion, when billions of levs were spent. The money was allegedly “absorbed” by Roma foundations. They built palaces with them. Roma foundations sprout like mushrooms and there are over 600.”

This is bad.

News Eastern Europe Slovakia

Slovakia Settlements

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Slovakia Settlements

A recent study has shown the abysmal differences of living conditions of Roma in Settlements in comparison to the rest of the population. The settlements need water, schools, and a minimum of infrastructure and services.

News Eastern Europe Poland

Poland and Roma

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Poland and Roma

A typical article on Roma. This time, they state “The world of the Roma, despite being so close to us, still appears to many Poles as a hermetic, closed world. Undoubtedly, Roma artists bring it closer to us.”  They thus manage a set of stereotypes in one go. It gets worse, as they also say that one of the most popular gypsy artists in Poland, Patrycja Runo was cursed by some of the Roma because she fell in love with a Pole.

No further comments …

News Eastern Europe Slovakia

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Martina Horňáková, author of a Romanes-Slovak phraseological dictionary, which received the Roma Spirit 2021 award for Act of the Year says “When you don’t know the difference between Gypsy and Roma, you have no idea that Romanes has its grammar, nice phrases, phraseology, riddles, spelling, short stories – you can’t be proud of your culture or language.”

News Eastern Europe Poland

Poland and Roma

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Poland and Roma

Tourists in Zakopane in the Tatra Mountains can be attracted not only by the views, trails and fried oscypek cheese, but also by music. And it’s not the one performed by highlander bands. In recent days, a video recording the performance of Roma bands in Krupówki has become a hit on the Internet. However, the opinions of Internet users about this artistic attraction are divided.

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Bulgaria and Roma

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Bulgaria and Roma

Four young Romnja are the winners in the initiative “Prosecutor for one day”. According to Vladimir Nikolov, District Prosecutor and Chairman of the Association of Prosecutors in Bulgaria, in cities where there are compact Roma communities, a program is being implemented for children who are interested in the activities of the prosecutor’s office.

“The participating cities are Sofia, Plovdiv, Pleven, Samokov and Gorna Oryahovitsa. Children from the relevant Roma communities apply through an essay describing how they envision the work of prosecutors, stating why they want to become prosecutors one day.”

News Eastern Europe Slovenia

Roma Settlement in Slovenia

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Roma Settlement in Slovenia

Although the municipality of Škocjan does not officially have an autochthonous Roma minority and thus no Roma councillor, there are more Roma there every year. More than three hundred Roma already live in two settlements in Dobruška. This means that in a municipality with about 3,400 inhabitants, about ten percent of the Roma population already has. The school already has a fifth or 20 percent of schoolchildren are Roma children.

The settlements have water, and the municipality installed chemical toilets.

News Eastern Europe Poland

Litzmannstadt Ghetto

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Litzmannstadt Ghetto

An article on the deportation of Roma to the Łodz/Litzmannstadt Ghetto. In September 1941, the Reich Central Statistical Office decided to deport 5,000 Roma from the Austro-Hungarian border to Poland, where they were imprisoned in the Łódź ghetto (Litzmannstadt Ghetto).

Bulgaria News Eastern Europe

Bulgaria: Award

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Bulgaria: Award

Elena Marushiakova and Veselin Popov have received the Romanipe Award in connection with their long-term work in

the field of Roma research

News Eastern Europe Ukraine

Ukraine – REALLY???

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Ukraine – REALLY???

In 2016, a Pogrom against Roma took place in Loshchinovka, near Odessa. No Roma were hurt as they had fled prior to the start of the pogrom. The origins of the pogrom was the brutal murder of an 8 year old girl and the fact that a Rom was initially accused of it. This accusation was dropped later.

Roma went to court to protest against the eviction and against the actions of several village officials., including the police which did not do anything to protect the Roma.

They lost – the eviction is apparently “self-government” of the village.

BAD.

Czech Republic News Eastern Europe

Romani Literature

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Romani Literature

A discussion with Karolína Ryvolová, romologue, translator. She did Romani Studies at the university, learnt Romanes, and became a translator and editor in the publisher “Kher”. She just published a book called “O mulo! Stories about the spirit of the dead”.

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