Bobko
10 Jul 2025
Genealogy / Polish and gypsy traditions [140]
Kind of zero, I'm afraid.
The central government has no gypsy policy. The Kremlin does not know Gypsies exist.
Policy is determined locally, by municipal leaders and governors.
Usually the methods are coercive. Some kind of murder or other gruesome crime happens within a Gypsy tabor, and the government cracks down. Takes away their children, places them in Russian boarding schools, and forcibly Russifies them.
If it doesn't go the extreme boarding school route, they still insist on educating the kids - sometimes under convoy and armed guards.
This is the only way that Gypsies ever reform - if you steal them away from their family and immerse them in secular Russian education.
what is the situation in your country about peripatetic teachers for Travellers kids?
Kind of zero, I'm afraid.
The central government has no gypsy policy. The Kremlin does not know Gypsies exist.
Policy is determined locally, by municipal leaders and governors.
Usually the methods are coercive. Some kind of murder or other gruesome crime happens within a Gypsy tabor, and the government cracks down. Takes away their children, places them in Russian boarding schools, and forcibly Russifies them.
If it doesn't go the extreme boarding school route, they still insist on educating the kids - sometimes under convoy and armed guards.
This is the only way that Gypsies ever reform - if you steal them away from their family and immerse them in secular Russian education.