For many Gypsies, those rules changed dramatically in 1992, when Bulgaria enacted a “restitution law” returning to private hands the lands that were seized by the state under communism.

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 ...

Protesters shouted slogans like “Gypsies into glue!” and police had to barricade the entrances to Roma neighborhoods as word spread of impending riots.

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 ...

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 ...

But rights groups involved with the initiative concede that the government will have to tackle centuries of tradition in which Gypsies have been regarded as an underclass. In Bulgaria, many groups ...

For many Gypsies, those rules changed dramatically in 1992, when Bulgaria enacted a "restitution law" returning to private hands the lands that were seized by the state under communism.

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 ...

Ambitious plans are afoot in central and eastern Europe to integrate Gypsies, or Sinti and Roma -- one of the continent's largest ethnic minorities -- into mainstream society within a decade.

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 ...