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"Right here on the crossroads crowds gathered, waiting for drugs to arrive. Mr Malenkin says that about seven years ago Roma people living in the house were openly selling heroin. "All of a sudden, their houses started to burn because of some electrical problems, and entire clans would leave," remembers Yevgenii Malenkin from Russian non-governmental organisation City Without Drugs, pointing to a burned house not far from Yekaterinburg, in central Russia. Russians have traditionally tended to think of Roma (Gypsies) in two ways: as horse-dealers and rustlers, or as rolling stones, wandering around the world in colourful costumes and singing romantic songs.īut in the new Russia this old image has been replaced by a different one - one generated by media reports from villages where Roma drug dealers sell heroin.Īnd although pro-Roma organisations try to argue that this picture does not apply to all Roma, their voice is drowned out by the media. "Houses started to burn": a Roma drug dealer's house
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