Nouvelles d'Europe de l'est Ukraine

Ukraine: Shattered Dreams

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The story of a Romano ethnographer and researcher, Janusz Panchenko from Kakhovka, the initiator of the creation of a Roma space in Kakhovka. Before the full-scale invasion, Janusz was writing a dissertation, documenting the memories of elderly Holocaust survivors, and teaching at a school for Roma children.

Even though he was pro-Ukrainian, he remained in the occupied territories. Until the Russian started looking at NGOs.

Sad.

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Fico and the 27th of January

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Fico’s party, Smer-SD commemorated the Holocaust as well as the Genocide and stated: “On January 27, 1945, Soviet troops liberated the concentration and extermination camp Auschwitz – Auschwitz. It is time for reflection, to remember the memory of millions of innocent lives that were victims of the Nazi regime,” they said, adding that they will never forget the victims of the Holocaust.

Well, in view of Fico’s comments on Roma, there is a touch of doubt about this.

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Auschwitz Commemorations

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Today, on the International Holocaust Remembrance Day, about 20 former prisoners of German camps and representatives of the Auschwitz Museum management laid a wreath and candles at the Death Wall in the former Auschwitz I. It was the first part of the celebration of the 79th anniversary of the liberation of the camp on January 27.

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Ukraine, the Holocaust, and Roma

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A long article on the Genocide of the Roma in the Ukraine and the parallels to the Jewish Holocaust in the Ukraine with a presentation by a German researcher of work done with and by Ukrainian researchers who, for the most part are currently on the front.

Other articles are on the commemorations of the 27th of January.

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Bulgaria: Romnja

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The exhibition “PhotoVoice” of the women’s advocacy club of the association LARGO Kyustendil under the motto “A Romni is ….” is presented by Sasho Kovachev from the Association in “Our Day”.

According to him, the photo exhibition is dedicated to successful Roma women and is part of a larger initiative, of a larger project called “I have a dream”. He also shared that a collection of short stories named “The Price of Success” has already been published as part of the initiative.

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Czech Republic and Murder

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In Brno, a young Roma was killed by a Ukrainian last summer following an altercation. While the thirty-eight-year-old Ukrainian Roman Rohozin, whom the public prosecutor accuses of murdering a young Roma at the Brno dam, has to wait until the beginning of March for the verdict, other participants in last year’s incident already know their punishments. Two men who attacked the Ukrainian together with the deceased young man were punished by the Brno city court for disorderly conduct.

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Slovakia, Fico, and Roma

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Petr Pollák asked the Slovak Prime Minister Robert Fico about his statements at the World Economic Forum in Davos, where, according to him, he spoke about “gypsies in Slovakia”. According to Pollák, he about how difficult it is to get them to work despite the fact that nowadays in every community they tell him that they need work. According to Fico, the Roma cannot only have rights in Slovakia, they must also have obligations, and they could create jobs for people who cannot be employed in the long term, for example “cleaning streams”.

He also claimed in the parliament that someone from OĽANO “bribed, corrupted and made promises Roma” before the last elections.

  • Premiér Robert Fico v parlamente tvrdí, že niekto z OĽaNO Rómov pred poslednými voľbami „uplácal, korumpoval a sľubovali im“. In: Dennik N. 25.01.2024. https://dennikn.sk/minuta/3794126/
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Slovenia and Integration

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In Trebnje, the mayor and the mayors of Slovenian municipalities signed an important Agreement for the support of Roma settlements, promising to improve conditions and integration.

The agreement was signed by the mayor and the mayors or deputy mayors of municipalities in which Roma settlements are registered and which receive state funds in accordance with Article 20a of the Municipal Financing Act.

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Ukraine: Riots

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Several article in the Ukrainian press about Roma rioting in Transcarpathia Ukraine following the release of two murder suspects from custody. The murder occurred during elections of Roma representatives.

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Bulgaria – Puppet Theatre

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Eighteen Romane children will appear on the stage of the Sliven puppet theater in the performance “The Bird of Happiness”. Evelina Kösovska, who directed and dramatized the play, said this at a press conference today. The children, who are fourth-graders from the “Miladinovi Brothers” and “Yuri Gagarin” elementary schools, in addition to being actors, participated in the creation of the show based on Romany fairy tales and legends.

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Kalderaša Kitsch

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An article on photographs of rich Kalderaša in Transcarpathian Ukraine shows the extent of the kitsch and unfortunately reinforces stereotypes.

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Czech Republic and Online Hate

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Young Roma and Romnja who participated in a volunteer project that fights against hate speech on the Internet in the Czech Republic published two studies today. They reveal the extent and impact of online racism against Roma and propose measures to counter it. The publications are the result of an innovative initiative that showed how Roma people can actively defend their rights by documenting and filing complaints and criminal charges against those who spread racial hatred on the Internet. The project was organized by the European Roma Rights Center (ERRC), the ROMEA organization and the Human Rights Forum.

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Slovakia: Gifted Musician

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Although he is only 16 years old, Samuel Bandy has already managed to perform in front of 3,500 spectators and win several music awards. “I started playing the violin when I was about three years old,” he recalls.

In addition to studying at the Košice Conservatory, today he is the leader of the family band Ďusi band – he leads both his father and his older siblings. They play Romani folklore, but also Jewish, Ruthenian, Hungarian and classical music. “Roma musicians have played at parties since ancient times and had to be versatile – they had to be able to play everything. And it’s the same today,” says Bandy.

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Serbia: Exhibition

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The historical-documentary exhibition “Between Empathy and Prejudice: Roma in the Press of the Kingdom of Yugoslavia (1929-1944)” by Dr. Kristina Jorgić Stepanović and Slavko Stepanović will open tomorrow in In the Historical Archives of Šumadija, on Thursday January 25 from 1 p.m.

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Serbia, the EU, and Roma

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The team for social inclusion and poverty reduction and the Roma Information Center (RIC) held a round table with the aim of reviewing the process of Serbia’s accession to the European Union through Chapters 23 and 24 with a special emphasis on the protection of the rights of Roma/Roma women.

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Bosnia and Roma

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The Association of Roma women Center for Mothers “Izvor života” Vitez held a conference and a workshop as part of the project “Let’s learn the Romani language” financed by the European Union in Bosnia and Herzegovina, and implemented by the United Nations Development Program (UNDP.

The overall goal of this project is: to nurture and spread the culture of the Roma in Bosnia and Herzegovina in order to preserve their identity, but also to be accepted by other peoples in Bosnia and Herzegovina.

Nouvelles d'Europe de l'est Slovaquie

Slovakia and Roma in Parliament

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The Slovak prime minister Fico against accused the OĽaNO opposition party of Matovič to have bought the votes of Roma in the settlements. The combination of the physical presence of the candidates of the OĽaNO Pačivale Roma platform (honest/responsible Roma) directly in Roma communities, extremely effective electoral mobilization, and thoughtful and believable communication on social networks caused the formation of a disciplined mass of Roma voters, who in the tens of thousands voted for one political party – the then OĽaNO movement, now Slovakia.

The new Roma MPs have now a difficult task ahead of them.

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