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News Osteuropa Polen

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 Osteuropa Slowakei

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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 Osteuropa Polen

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.

Bulgarien News Osteuropa

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 Osteuropa Slowenien

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 Osteuropa Polen

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).

Bulgarien News Osteuropa

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 Osteuropa 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.

Tschechische Republik News Osteuropa

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”.

News Osteuropa Serbien

Belgrade and Roma

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Belgrade and Roma

Many Roma children and adolescents in Belgrade are forced to work. They do not go to school regularly, and cultural practices and sports activities are often beyond their reach. The (per)Spective project wants to open the doors of cinemas and museums to them.

News Osteuropa Slowakei

Moroslav Rác

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Moroslav Rác

The pianist Miroslav Rác decided to dedicate his music to the victims of the Holocaust. Especially on the Roma one.

Miroslav Rác grew up in a family of musicians and was drawn to music as a child. “I chose the piano. I’ve been living classical music since I was a child,” he explains.

His family had a tragic personal experience. “Many of my parents’ relatives died in concentration camps. My grandfather was even in a few, but fortunately he survived them.” That is why Rác has been intensively concentrating on the Holocaust since studying at the Dezider Kardoš Conservatory in Topoľčany.

Tschechische Republik News Osteuropa

Czech Republic: At long last!

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Czech Republic: At long last!

Women, overwhelmingly Romnja, who were forced-sterilised in Czechoslovakia and in the Czech Republic between 1966 and 2012 (yes, that late) can claim 300’000 Czech Koruna (about 12’000 EUR) compensation from the state.

It took a long while and doesn’t repair the damage.

Tschechische Republik News Osteuropa

Denial

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Denial

A former Czech MP is facing prosecution for having said Lety was not a concentration camp.

Good!

Tschechische Republik News Osteuropa

Czechia: Funeral

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Czechia: Funeral

A large Roma funeral made it to the papers. Hundreds of Roma came to say goodbye to Eva Riessová, a resident of Přerov, whom everyone liked, according to locals. The mourning procession went from the church of St. Vavřince to the cemetery on busy roads and the police had to control the traffic.

Ungarn News Osteuropa

Hungary, Votes, and Roma

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Hungary, Votes, and Roma

The commissioner for Roma relations of the Hungarian Interior Ministry has been recorded saying that he would fund programs if the organisations put forward candidates to the government’s liking

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