Putin's bank moves to Budapest, gets all conceivable privileges and immunities
- Featured post, Foreign, Political
- 21 February 2019

The Hungarian government has made a decision that has further cooled relations with the US, the Direkt3.hu investigation site reports. The Budapest Foreign Ministry refused to extradite to US two Russian traffickers selling weapons to Mexican cartels that were to be used even against the US armed forces. Instead of extradition to the US, where
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The United States requested the extradition of two suspected Russian arms dealers, Vladimir Lyubishin Sr. and Vladimir Lyubishin Jr., pursuant to the U.S.-Hungary Extradition Treaty. Hungary denied the U.S. request and instead extradited the suspects to Russia, where it is unclear whether they will face trial. The United States is disappointed in the Hungarian
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After Poland and Hungary, the European Parliament turned its attention to another trouble spot, Romania, which seems to be following in the footsteps of Hungary and Poland, two countries that in the past few years have undermined the very foundations of the rule of law. Admittedly, the Romanian government hasn’t gotten as far as its
READ MORE‘We will spend a lot of time in Hungary,’ says US strategist Steve Bannon, former political strategist for Donald Trump, said he plans to work closely with the Hungarian prime minister Viktor Orban in the run-up to next year’s European Parliament elections. Mr Bannon revealed that he had visited Budapest to speak to the
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It is time for Europe to wake up and take the threat from the eastern flank seriously. Moscow actively supports the extreme-right and populist movements of Europe, creating a network of allies sympathetic to Russia throughout the European Union, writes James Wilson in EUobserver. The main goal of the Kremlin is to create new areas
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