Theme: Roma rights

  This year celebrations of International Romani Day were organized in Chudovo, Novgorod region, by Suleyman Yanopol, a local volunteer and activist, who now works as an assistant teacher for the first grades of a school in a local Roma…

International Romani Day was celebrated in several cities and towns in Russia, among them Samara. On this occasion the staff of ADC “Memorial” joined these celebrations. Samara region is home to several Romani population groups: Kotlyar (Căldărari) Roma dwelling in…

This primer is called “Romano Alphabet”. For many people, it will be a discovery that one can write in the Romani language, and this delusion has its own explanations: for the most part, the Romani languages exists only in oral…

The author of this book, Oleg Petrovich (Murša le Ristasko ai la Lenako), comes from the Roma Сăldărari sub-group of Roma (sapronroni family). In his memoirs about his grandfather and father, who were barons of a Roma band, the reader…

International Romani Day, April 8, is celebrated since 1971, when the First World Romani congress has convened, one of the first events aimed at defending the rights and preserving the culture of the Romani people. It was also one of…

ADC “Memorial” monitors situation of the rights of Roma in Kaliningrad region for a long time now. Our staff has visited Kaliningrad and met with the members of the local Roma community on numerous occasions. Together with lawyer Ella Alexeyenkova we…