Russia – rroma.org https://rroma.org Fri, 10 Apr 2026 12:24:50 +0000 en-GB hourly 1 https://rroma.org/wp-content/uploads/2022/07/cropped-greenwheel_large-1-32x32.png Russia – rroma.org https://rroma.org 32 32 Russia and Genocide https://rroma.org/russia-and-genocide/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=russia-and-genocide Fri, 10 Apr 2026 12:24:50 +0000 https://rroma.org/?p=32201 Russia passed a new law condemning denial of the genocide of Soviet people, with up to three years of forced labour and fines.

Where’s the issue: Well, potentially for researchers who mention the jewish and Roma genocide without mentioning soviets, but foremost, anyone who damages monuments to victims of the Soviet occupation – in Russia and abroad – will be jailed for up to 4 years. So removing a “liberation” monument in the Baltics can get you in troubles…

]]> Alexander “Sacha” Kolpakov https://rroma.org/alexander-sacha-kolpakov/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=alexander-sacha-kolpakov Fri, 14 Nov 2025 18:40:40 +0000 https://rroma.org/?p=30455 The best Russian Roma 7-String guitars musician, a composer of many songs, a teacher, a father, a friend, passed away yesterday. With him, some of the traditional Romani music from Russia also passed away. From a Servi family from Saratov, he moved to Moscow where he played for a long time in the Theatre Romen. He was internationally known with tours in the US, but mostly for his participation in Madonna’s Sweet and Sticky tour which saw Madonna sing in Romanes.

May he rest in peace and continue to play in the after world.

Te Javel I phuv lokhi, i leskiro drom puterdo.

 

Sacha Kolpakov
]]> Russia: Pogroms https://rroma.org/russia-pogroms-2/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=russia-pogroms-2 Tue, 19 Nov 2024 07:35:11 +0000 https://rroma.org/?p=25821 Finally, the news makes it to the West. We reported on it already.

Following the murder of a taxi driver by a Rom, a pogrom started in the town of Korkino, in the Cheliabinsk region. Subsequently after the riots, several Roma were summoned to serve in the army in the Ukraine, a certain death and definitively a punishment.

For the journalist: there are no Sinti in Russia …

]]> Russia, Roma, and the War https://rroma.org/russia-roma-and-the-war/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=russia-roma-and-the-war Wed, 13 Nov 2024 12:16:52 +0000 https://rroma.org/?p=25740 A pogrom against Roma happened recently in Korkino, in the Cheliabinsk region. It happened after the murder of a 40-year-old taxi driver. She was killed by a teenage Rom. He probably argued with the woman about the fare. After her death, riots broke out in the city.

Seven Roma from Korkino have received summonses to report to a military recruitment centre. This was reported by Igor Dongauzer, the prosecutor of the Chelyabinsk region, during a regular meeting with the residents of Korkino. This is probably a punishment that is supposed to help the authorities rebuild their authority in the city.

]]> Russia: Pogroms https://rroma.org/russia-pogroms/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=russia-pogroms Sat, 02 Nov 2024 12:47:36 +0000 https://rroma.org/?p=25614 Last week, 40-year-old Elena Sarafanova was killed in the city of Korkino (Chelyabinsk region) — two Roma teenagers were accused of the crime. The next day, pogroms began in the city: angry residents went to the settlement, where the Roma live compactly, and set fire to several houses.

It seems that hatred ran deep, and that residents asked “where to deport them if they have no homeland” …

]]> Russia, the War, and Roma https://rroma.org/russia-the-war-and-roma/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=russia-the-war-and-roma Sat, 02 Nov 2024 12:44:31 +0000 https://rroma.org/?p=25607 Police and the Russian National Guard conducted a raid on the night of October 30 in areas of where Roma live in the Gatchina District of the Leningrad Region of Russia. More than 50 men were detained and registered for military service.  A “total check” as part of criminal cases on illegal drug trafficking was carried out in these areas. In one of the houses in the village of Novosiverskaya, according to the Russian police, equipment for the production of synthetic drugs and several kilograms of an unknown substance were found in a family of “nomadic people”. In addition, 15 million rubles, two traumatic pistols and a hunting rifle were allegedly seized.

In brife, Russia is looking for cannon fodder and is highlightin Roma as criminals.

]]> Russia and Roma https://rroma.org/russia-and-roma/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=russia-and-roma Sat, 26 Oct 2024 14:32:48 +0000 https://rroma.org/?p=25540 Following the murder of a taxi driver in the region of Cheliabinsk, a murder that was bamed on Roma, a pogrom took place in the Roma neighbourhood.

Bad.

]]> Russia, Mobilisation, and Roma https://rroma.org/russia-mobilisation-and-roma/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=russia-mobilisation-and-roma Thu, 14 Dec 2023 08:01:07 +0000 https://rroma.org/?p=22511 Russia has long been recruiting prisoners, criminals and its own ethnic minorities from different regions into the war against Ukraine. Now they have begun to “engage” other categories of the population – Roma and migrants.

For example, on December 12, in the Leningrad region, 30 to 50 Roma were taken to military registration and enlistment offices. The head of the Sitting Rus’ charity foundation, Olga Romanova, told Channel 24 about this, noting that they would subsequently be sent to the front.

]]> Seven String Guitar https://rroma.org/seven-string-guitar/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=seven-string-guitar Sat, 12 Aug 2023 11:50:06 +0000 https://rroma.org/?p=21291 An article about a seldom heard of style and instrument: Russian Roma songs on the seven string guitar with the Kolpakovs.

]]> Transnistria and Roma https://rroma.org/transnistria-and-roma/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=transnistria-and-roma https://rroma.org/transnistria-and-roma/#respond Sat, 02 Feb 2019 09:18:10 +0000 https://rroma.org/en/transnistria-and-roma/ In Tiraspol, Transnistria – a region that declared independence and is only recognised by Russia, a round table on “The social and economic position of the Roma in society” was organised. Among its participants are representatives of public organizations, executive bodies of power, as well as deputies of the Supreme Council.
Well, no comments …

– ПРОБЛЕМЫ РОМОВ ОБСУДИЛИ НА КРУГЛОМ СТОЛЕ В ТИРАСПОЛЕ. In: Novosti PMR. 31.01.2019. https://novostipmr.com/ru/news/19-01-31/problemy-romov-obsudili-na-kruglom-stole-v-tiraspole [link-preview url=”https://novostipmr.com/ru/news/19-01-31/problemy-romov-obsudili-na-kruglom-stole-v-tiraspole”]

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