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Response to the “institutionalized terrorism” of Belarus

Yesterday, while I was writing my piece on the Hungarian media’s first couple of reactions to the Belarusian hijacking of a Ryanair flight from Athens to Vilnius, the European Council with astonishing...

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Orbán is proud of Katalin Karikó but prefers the inferior Chinese vaccine to...

Practically every time I begin to research a “hot” topic that has suddenly swamped the media, I find that the subject had been floating around for some time but nobody picked it up. It was in May 2020...

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Hungarian fans (minus the prime minister) in Munich

This morning, even before I had a chance to take a look at the news, I received an e-mail with the following mysterious message: “Our leader retreated, obviously knowing what a whistle-stop concert he...

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How to distort news: One can always turn to the Orbán government for advice

Today, I will be focusing on the ways in which the Orbán government and its media distort news items beyond recognition and how the distorted version then spreads and gains general acceptance. Perhaps...

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UEFA punishes Hungary for the behavior of its fans

You may recall that the management of the Carpathian Brigade ’09, a group of football fans, asked its members “not to give in to any provocation” during the German-Hungarian game in Munich because...

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Hungary’s modern Icarus

It might be the middle of summer, when parliaments are no longer in session and politicians should be enjoying their holidays in summer resorts either at home or abroad, but this year there is anything...

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Possible foreign policy adjustments by Viktor Orbán: Russia, Ukraine, China?

This summer didn’t have a silly season, due largely to the catastrophic developments in Afghanistan. As far as Hungary was concerned, the domestic scene was relatively calm, even though it was marred...

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Mária Schmidt’s open letter to Boris Johnson

The purpose of this post is to make available a translation of a Hungarian-language Facebook comment by Mária Schmidt, a historian of sorts who influences Viktor Orbán’s views, the director of the...

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Hungary’s international friends

Today’s post is a potpourri of several topics that are, I believe, worthy of our attention. Let’s start with Foreign Minister Péter Szijjártó’s visit to the United Nations, which began with a...

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Russian natural gas to Hungary will be rerouted, no longer going through Ukraine

It was less than a month ago that I described the “considerable shift in Ukrainian-Hungarian relations, for the better.” I based my analysis on a speech Hungarian President János Áder delivered at the...

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