Bulgaria has recently witnessed violence against Roma for the first time. There were violent demonstrations in the capital Sofia and 14 other cities, including Plovdiv, Varna and Pleven, against the ...

Mobilized by Facebook posters which successfully evaded anti-hatred censorship on the Web, thousands of masked pro-nationalist youths marched through central Sofia Saturday to demand that the ...

Bulgaria's prime minister appealed for calm today (16 June) following several days of violence and ethnic tensions involving the EU country's 10 percent Roma minority.

SOFIA, March 24 (Reuters) - Authorities in the Bulgarian city of Sliven have set up police checkpoints around the Roma neighbourhood, as the government considers tougher measures for a community it ...

KYUSTENDIL, Bulgaria -- To beat the heat, Arso Ganev recently took his family to a local pool in their hometown of Kyustendil on the western fringes of Bulgaria. Arriving late in the afternoon at a ...

Several policemen and protesters have been injured during clashes at an anti-Roma rally in the southern town of Radnevo that was held after an alleged assault by Roma men on ethnic Bulgarians. Around ...

The birth parents of “Maria” stumble out of a studio in the Bulgarian capital, minutes after their first major TV interview. Surrounded by bright lights and state-of-the art technology, Saska Ruseva ...

While officials say they are merely trying to protect the Roma community from COVID-19, some of its members feel victimised by the restrictive measures put in place in their neighbourhoods. Since the ...

This article is part of the Breaking out: Stories of Roma empowerment special report, presented by the Roma Foundation for Europe. On a hot June day, a group of Roma teenagers huddled over chemistry ...