“We gave her, we gifted her, without money,” Ruseva told Bulgaria’s TV7 on Oct. 24, after she saw Maria on the news. “I didn’t take any money. I didn’t have any food to give to the kid. I saw it ...

Belatedly, a link to the post on “adoption of abandoned Bulgarian Gypsy children by non-Gypsy Bulgarians and foreigners” – at Maya's Corner. Global Voices stands out as one of the earliest and ...

(CBS/AP) NIKOLAEVO, Bulgaria - DNA tests have confirmed that a Bulgarian Roma couple are the parents of a mysterious girl in Greece known as Maria, authorities said Friday. Genetic profiles of Sasha ...