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Lujan Koka

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Lujan Koka

Ljuan Koka is a Roma political scientist, screenwriter and journalist. He achieved a significant career as a media and socio-political worker, especially in the field of protection of national and ethnic minorities. He also created a television show in Romanes.

The article covers his story.

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Petro Jovanovic / Petro Ivanovitch

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Petro Jovanovic / Petro Ivanovitch

The well know Parisian musician Petro Ivanovitch (Jovanovic) who was born in Serbia died recently at the age of 76 in Paris. He was buried in the Montmartre cemetery last Thursday acompaigned by music sung by his family and the many musicians who attended the ceremony.

Petro founded the “Tsiganes Ivanovitch”, a group that recorded several albums.

May he rest in peace! Te avel o drom angla leste putherdo!

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Serbia and Roma

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Serbia and Roma

An interview in the Serbian press of Kosovo’s General Secretary of the National Council of Roma, Bajram Morena. By law, the National Council of Roma has competence in four areas: education, culture, official language use and information in the languages of national minorities.

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Serbia and Romanes

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Serbia and Romanes

The Roma Cultural Center Pancevo brought school supplies as a gift to the children who learn the Romani language with elements of the Roma national culture at the “Đura Jakšić” Primary School in Pavliš, on the occasion of the International Day of the Romani Language.

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Serbia: EU Roma Project

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Serbia: EU Roma Project

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.

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Romanes in Belgrade

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Romanes in Belgrade

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.

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Romanes Classes

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Romanes Classes

An article about the first course of Romanes in Kuplin, Vojvodina, in an elementary school. The Ministry of Education has approved two classes, and there are five students from the first to the fourth grade, and seven students from the fifth to the eighth grade.

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Romnja and Violence

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Romnja and Violence

According to a recent survey in Serbia by the Roma Centre for Women and Children “Daje”, more than two-thirds of Roma women have been exposed to psychological or physical violence at least once.

The authors of this research state that, due to the specific culture of silence in the community, Roma women hesitate to talk about the violence they are experiencing. Being brought up in accordance with rigid patriarchal norms leads to them accepting violence as something normal and as an integral part of life. In addition, Roma women often do not recognize that they are exposed to violence.

We have a problem with these statements: Two third of the surveyed women may very well have been subjected to violence. But two third of all Roma women? How do they know? In addition, the patriarchal norms are not quite accurate.

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Belgrade: Commemoration

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Belgrade: Commemoration

26 years after his brutal murder by two skinheads, family and activists commemorated the death of Dusan Jovanović.

In September 2023 they submitted a new proposal in which they specified a part of the park in public property to be named after Dušan Jovanović, but the authorities have not formally addressed and responded to the family of the murdered boy to date.

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Dušan Jovanović

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Dušan Jovanović

Representatives of the Ne davimo Beograd-Green Left Front party, the city of Belgrade and the Roma Forum of Serbia laid flowers in Beogradska Street, at the place where a 13-year-old Roma boy, Dušan Jovanović, was killed 26 years ago.

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Vojvodina and Education

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Vojvodina and Education

The city of Subotica financed free textbooks for vulnerable children from the Roma population again this year. This is a measure aimed at preventing school dropouts and has been in place for a number of years. The ceremony of handing over textbooks was held today at the “Matko Vuković” Elementary School.

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Svi Uglas

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Svi Uglas

The Svi uglas choir, which gathers Roma children and young people, as well as all others interested in learning about Roma culture and getting to know the Roma community through music, will hold a big concert on Saturday in the Youth Center, and as special guests they will be joined by Konstrakt, the first female Roma hip-hop band Pretty Loud, and the choir of the First Belgrade High School.

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Novi Sad: Roma Bal

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Novi Sad: Roma Bal

The Novi Sad Roma Ball will be held on Friday, September 29, starting at 7 p.m., in Villa Moskva, Novi Sad.

Visitors can expect a rich program, a game competition and a contest for Miss Evening. Guests will be entertained by Milan Dimić’s orchestra with guest Roxana Chirit from Romania and other singers.

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Serbia, Roma, and Music

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Serbia, Roma, and Music

The big autumn concert of the Svi UGLAS choir will be held on September 23. at 6 p.m. in the Great Hall of the Youth Center in Belgrade.

The SVI UGLAS choir is not quite an ordinary choir. It gathers Roma children and young people, as well as all other people who want to learn about Roma culture and get to know the Roma community through music. The choir was started in 2016 by the association Art Aparat headed by Maja Ćurčić, a music teacher and composer from Belgrade, and so far over 400 participants of all ages have sung in it.

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Subotica: festival

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Subotica: festival

On Tuesday, September 12, the Roma National Council and the City of Subotica are organizing the First Festival of Roma Music, the Roma Tambura and Brass Evening, on the City Square.

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Serbia: Baptism

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Serbia: Baptism

Another article that is not exactly good for Roma. This time it is a baptism of a child in Belgrade, where apparently lots of money was spent.

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