The Roma community has long been a punching bag in Bulgaria. The violence — and the hateful rhetoric — has intensified ahead of EU elections.

This is Nikolaevo, a tumbledown Roma village in the heart of Bulgaria. If fate had dealt a girl known as “Maria” a different hand, she would have grown up here, surrounded by decay and poverty.

Dafin is of Roma origin. Abandoned by his parents as a baby, he grew up in a Bulgarian orphanage. Today, he is a hugely popular teacher because he teaches his students to believe in themselves and ...

Roma people in a Bulgarian town are barred from leaving their neighborhood. Officials cite a medical risk, but residents and advocates say it’s yet another form of bigotry.

Case Of 'Little Maria' Is Solved, Bulgarian Romas Are Her Parents : The Two-Way The Bulgarian couple said they had no money to feed Maria, so they gave her to the couple charged with abducting her.

The Roma quarter in the small town in central Bulgaria where the Rusevas live houses some 2,000 people, nearly one-third of the whole population. The Gypsies, most of them jobless, live in extreme ...

DNA tests have confirmed that the mother of little Maria is a Roma woman living in Bulgaria, and she says the child was never sold or stolen. Barbie Latza Nadeau reports on the story’s latest ...

Around 5,000 Roma people, particularly from the Kalayji tribe, gather in Stara Zagora city in Bulgaria and continue to draw controversy and attention with its annual bride market.

Ruseva and her husband, both Bulgarian Roma, have nine other children aged between 2 and 20 and live in deep poverty, occupying one room in a crumbling house in the town of Nikolaevo, 280 km (170 ...

NIKOLAEVO, Bulgaria — The mystery is solved — but the future of the young girl known only as Maria is still uncertain. DNA tests have confirmed that a Bulgarian Roma couple living in an ...

The Roma community has long been a punching bag in Bulgaria. The violence — and the hateful rhetoric — has intensified ahead of EU elections.

The Roma community has long been a punching bag in Bulgaria. The violence — and the hateful rhetoric — has intensified ahead of EU elections.