PLOVDIV, Bulgaria --Gypsies have gone on a two-day rampage after their electricity was cut off amid claims that nearly $3 million of bills remain unpaid. About 1,000 gypsies in Bulgaria's second ...

Lifestyle: In Bulgaria, most are jobless. They are accused of being too lazy to work, but they contend that no one will hire them. Bias Against Gypsies Persists in Europe - Los Angeles Times ...

Bulgaria, which is slated to join the EU in 2007, has pledged to raise employment rates among Gypsies. A survey there in November found 89 percent of Gypsies said they would rather have jobs than ...

In Bulgaria, gypsies typically live in segregated slums and are often seen begging or driving old horse carts in the Bulgarian capital. But it is in Hungary where anti-gypsy sentiment has gained ...

The charge that a relative of a Roma clan leader killed a Bulgarian teenager sparked anti-Gypsy demonstrations across the country last weekend. Thousands of protesters ...

15 percent of the gypsies in Bulgaria suffer famine, a report of the United Nations Development Program (UNDP) insists. The paper that looks into the plight of Roma population in Central and ...

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 ...

SLIVEN, Bulgaria — Shortly before leaving on a trip to Eastern Europe, my husband and I did something that would baffle any traveler who’s been approached at a train station in Rome or Paris ...

Officially, there are 350,000 in Bulgaria. But because many call themselves Turks at census time, the real number is more like 650,000, or 8 percent of the population, Gypsy activists contend.

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 ...