PLOVDIV, Bulgaria — A small boy shimmies up a utility pole, gingerly grabs an insulated cable pulsing with high voltage and connects it to his home: a cube of corrugated iron sheets in Bulgaria’s ...

PLOVDIV, Bulgaria -- A small boy shimmies up a utility pole, gingerly grabs an insulated cable pulsing with high voltage and connects it to his home: a cube of corrugated iron sheets in Bulgaria's ...

Belatedly, a link to the post on “adoption of abandoned Bulgarian Gypsy children by non-Gypsy Bulgarians and foreigners” – at Maya's Corner. Global Voices stands out as one of the earliest and ...

SOFIA, Aug 16 (Reuters) - Recent riots in the capital by Bulgaria's Roma gypsies were the result of discrimination, a human rights group said on Thursday, but it played down the prospect of localised ...

This city is full of stark, Soviet-era housing blocks, and the grimmest among them — gray towers of one-room apartments with communal bathrooms and no hot water — are given over to the Roma population ...

PARIS — France was getting ready Wednesday to start the expulsion of Gypsy migrants despite hefty criticism at home and abroad of the action. Media reports said the first group of 79 was to be flown ...

MONTANA, Bulgaria — Fourteen-year-old Ludmil Atanasov would like to finish high school. For most Bulgarians his age, that is a reasonable expectation. But in Kosharnik, the Gypsy neighborhood he comes ...