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 ...

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 localised ...

How did the book come about? I had been travelling to the Balkans since 1992, and hadn’t found anything written about Gypsy music — so I became the “Gypsy music correspondent” for the then folk music ...