Rromani (Gypsy) kids in Russia?

Just to add my two cents to the question of whether using "Gypsy" is derogatory...some Roma, mostly activists, are in fact offended by the term. I personally far prefer being called Romani because of the confusing and dubious associations with stereotyped and undifferentiated "Gypsies" or "gypsies." (It gets confusing, though, because the term Rom/Roma comes from the Romani language: Rom is one male person, Romni is a female, Roma is the plural noun, and Romani is one form of the adjective -- non-Romani-speakers very understandably have a hard time keeping all these words straight :-) I don't really find the word "Gypsy" derogatory as long as the intention is friendly, although I wish people would always capitalize the word if they're going to use it (few people would write "jewish" with a lower-case j) so that it clearly stands for an ethnic group and not a lifestyle. So that's where I stand :)