Putin's bank moves to Budapest, gets all conceivable privileges and immunities
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- 21 February 2019
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Republicans discover that Orbán is an unreliable US ally0
According to Nancy Goodman Brinker, the former US Ambassador to Budapest, Hungary is now a “former ally.” In a recent opinion piece at the über-conservative media site Newsmax.com, Brinker, a 72-year-old Republican concludes that Hungary’s alliance with the US has turned “unsavory.” Brinker writes: “Two decades ago, Mr. Orbán was a centrist who praised the
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A FORMER COUNTERINTELLIGENCE AGENT WILL BE HUNGARY’S REPRESENTATIVE TO THE INTERNATIONAL INVESTMENT BANK0
The story of Aleksei Torubarov’s six-year struggle for political asylum in Hungary, summarized yesterday, cannot be separated from the unusually close relations between Russia and Hungary. For a number of years Vladimir Putin and Viktor Orbán have had a close working relationship, based on their autocratic aspirations and most likely on many other considerations that
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UDMR leader announces the de facto burial of the autonomy project for Szeklerland0
- Political
- 29 July 2019
István Székely, executive vice president of the UDMR, announced on Friday in a debate with other Hungarian parties that his party will submit a project on the autonomy of the Szeklerland only if another party “provides support for a substantive debate on the issue”, according to the Hungarian MTI agency. The previous two UDMR attempts
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“Hungarian speakers only” summer camp in Wisconsin paid by the Orbán government0
A couple of weeks ago a children’s summer camp was held at Phantom Lake, Wisconsin. The organizers invited children between 8-14 years of age with one precondition: they had to speak the Hungarian language. The Hungarian Government generously supported the week-long fun-filled event. It was advertised only in Hungarian in the US and was called
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