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Central Europe investigative editor @VSquare_Project | journalist @direkt36 I 'Goulash' newsletter: I szabolcs.panyi @vsquare .org

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‼️🇷🇺Hungary’s latest Russia scandal: @direkt36 reveals that Orbán’s foreign ministry has been compromised by an ongoing Russian cyberespionage campaign. They even hacked the encrypted channel also transmitting confidential NATO & EU material. 👇THREAD.👇
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‼️PM Viktor Orbán's long-time adviser, Zsuzsa Hegedüs resigns, telling his boss in a letter that "I don't know how you didn't notice that you were turning your earlier anti-migrant and anti-Europeanism into a pure Nazi speech worthy of Goebbels". @hvg_hu :
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1/ Why does it matter that Viktor Orbán’s close friend and ally, MEP József Szájer was caught having an orgy with 20+ men? Very simple. While he was enjoying himself in LGBT-friendly Brussels, he made life for LGBT people in Hungary miserable by rewriting the constitution. THREAD
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❌🇷🇺Wow: Hungary would veto EU sanctions against Russian gas transfers, a no-fly zone over Ukraine, and even an EU peacekeeping mission. Foreign Minister Péter Szijjártó - a receipient of the Order of Friendship, one of the Kremlin's highest honours - called these a "red line".
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Now that it’s confirmed: József Szájer, the MEP busted during a gay gangbang, is not only a close ally of PM Orbán, he personally re-wrote Hungary's constitution to include the following line: "Hungary shall protect the institution of marriage as the union of a man & a woman..."
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Wow. Hungarian news site @Telexhu on the mysterious MEP who was busted in a drug-fueled gangbang in Brussels on Friday: "Belgian papers don’t mention who could be the Hungarian MEP, but József Szájer, former MEP of the governing party, resigned 2 days ago”
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Ukrainian foreign minister Dmytro Kuleba said that frosty 🇺🇦-🇭🇺 relations won't improve as long as PM Orbán is leading Hungary. He also revealed that the only EU foreign minister who didn't meet him since February 24 is Hungary's Péter Szijjártó. Stunning.
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1/ More than 170 Hungarian generals and senior military officers have been forced into early retirement in recent days by Hungary's MoD, led by Kristóf Szalay-Bobrovniczky. He is a former business partner of Transmashholding, a Russian state-owned company.
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Zelensky on Hungary's Russia ties and disloyalty to NATO: "How to resolve the dispute with Budapest? The only question is Budapest's desire. I think there is a political entanglement of the political elites in Hungary. It's a very strange situation, can a NATO country be for…
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This will be a case study in international relations for years to come. A few days ago, US Treasury sanctioned a Russian-controlled bank ( @IIB_Press ) that Hungarian PM Viktor Orbán personally invited to relocate to Budapest. Subsequently, news broke about a possible next round…
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‼️🚫Orbán’s MPs didn’t show up in Hungary’s parliament to vote on 🇸🇪’s NATO accession - no quorum, no vote. Orbán promised to @jensstoltenberg there’d be a vote ASAP. He didn’t keep his word. Meanwhile, ambassadors of NATO allies 🇺🇸🇳🇱🇸🇰🇳🇴🇩🇰 🇪🇪 were present, @Telexhu reports.
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In the US, the two people Viktor Orbán invested in - and betted on - were Donald Trump and Tucker Carlson. Hungary contracted a company for DC lobbying where Tucker’s father is a director, then flew Tucker to Hungary to speak at a government-funded organization’s event.…
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Ouch. US ambassador to Hungary visits the new symbol of EU money fraud and corruption in Hungary: a canopy or treetop walk built in the middle of nowhere - and without any trees.
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Quite a view from Hungary’s EU-funded “forest canopy walkway” project in Nyírmártonfalva.
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Worrying news from Budapest: during today's protest at PM Viktor Orbán's office, opposition MP @MartonTompos was dragged out of the crowd by Hungarian police. Despite his immunity as MP, he was cable tied and brought to an unknown location. His party can't get in touch with him.
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Hungarian students rallied in front of the office of PM Viktor Orbán - labeled as “DICK-TATOR” in a banner -, police used tear gas and force against them. For many weeks now, students and teachers have been protesting against a new law curbing teachers’ rights. Pics: @Telexhu
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‼️🇺🇦🇭🇺 If you know people from Ukraine who made it / can make it to Hungary, please message me so I could help with arranging accomodation.
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‼️👀Bags of partly burnt mail ballots for the Hungarian election were found in Romania near a motorway on Wednesday. Some ballots show support for the opposition. Orbán granted voting rights to the neighbouring Hungarian diaspora. They can vote by mail.
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‼️One last thing: Hungary's pro-Kremlin government doesn't represent the general attitude of Hungarian people who are eager to help Ukrainians however they can. We're volunteering, making donations, sheltering refugees and making our voices heard. Don't confuse us with Orbán.
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Recent sex scandals of Orbán’s gov’t, from left to right: Gábor Kaleta, former MFA spokesman, Ambassador to Peru: arrested for child porn József Szájer, MEP: busted in an illegal gangbang with men Zsolt Borkai, mayor of Győr: taped during a gangbang with prostitues on a yacht
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An anti-Russian activist protested against Viktor Orbán’s meeting with Putin by leaving some gifts at the PM’s office in Budapest. “Comrade PM deserves a dog bone as a reward because he obeys Putin as a vassal, who, after the Soviet Union, took away Hungary's independence again.”
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Without announcement or explanation, a 🇭🇺 military plane arrived in Moscow yesterday & spent the night at Vnukovo Airport before returning to Budapest today. It likely carried a top politician, still, this is a military plane with NATO comms systems.😬
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💥NEW STORY: Some NATO allies restricted intel sharing with Slovakia – and it can even get worse if disgraced former police chief Tibor Gašpar, accused of running an organized crime group, takes over as Slovakia's new intelligence chief. @VSquare_Project
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Reverse Borat: American white supremacist comes to Hungary to praise its leader and argue how rolling back liberal democracy is such a great thing.
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Tucker Carlson is broadcasting from Hungary
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Ladies and gentlemen, the Prime Minister of Hungary:
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Worrying rumours circulate as Viktor Orbán is assembling his next government, which could be his most pro-Kremlin ever with multiple ministers having close Russian ties. Hungary's foreign policy, military, national security & cyber defense apparatus could all be affected. Thread.
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A relief sculpture of Viktor Orbán and Vladimir Putin kissing passionately appeared at Batthyány Square in Budapest.
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Hungarian police are gassing high school kids and their teachers who are protesting in front of Prime Minister Viktor Orbán’s office in Budapest. Pics: Gabor Banko @444hu
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Hungarians living in Brussels installed this plaque on the gutter which MEP József Szájer tried to use while fleeing authorities “after attending an illegal ecstasy fuelled orgy”, @telexhu reports. The plaque quickly became popular among locals.
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👀At @direkt36 , we've investigated Viktor Orbán's shady deals with Putin's circles and found tons of worrying examples when Hungarian government decisions clearly benefited the Kremlin - even at the expense of Hungarian & EU/NATO interests. 🧵Thread👇
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It's often overlooked that linking EU funds to rule of law is a very personal threat to Viktor Orbán and his family too. In recent years, my colleagues at @direkt36 have uncovered in details how EU funds enriched the Orbáns: the father, the brother and the son-in-law. THREAD.
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This is an official video by Orbán's government, showing Crimea as part of Russia while calling for 'peace'. It has been commissioned directly by the Hungarian government. 100% official and not a mistake. Orbán and his people are conscious about the political messaging of maps.
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Ákos Keller-Alánt
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Crimea is not part of #Ukraine in the #Hungarian government's new propaganda video - in which the govt. calls for peace
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#Kherson Photo by Hungarian photographer András Hajdú D. @hajdud
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Wow! Hungary manipulated Ukrainian POWs to convince them "that they would immediately be returned to the front line or tried as deserters if they returned to Ukraine (...) they were even pressured to take 🇭🇺 citizenship". @floragaramvolgy @francisjfarrell
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Breaking: Viktor Orbán's MPs voted NO on the opposition's proposal to hold a parliamentary vote on the 🇫🇮&🇸🇪 NATO accession tomorrow. Opposition parties are losing their patience as Hungary & Turkey are the last NATO members not to ratify the enlargement.
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Viktor Orbán just made a speech at Tusnadfurdo that’s likely going to be as controversial as his 2014 speech on ‘illiberalism’. Now he claimed that it’s OK for European people to ‘mix’ among each other but Hungarians are not ‘mixed-race’ and ‘don’t want to mix with other races’.
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Let's not be naive: a no-fly zone over Ukraine is a red line for many other EU member states as well. However, Orbán is actually taking pride in loudly opposing all kinds of help to Ukraine. There are many who piss in the swimming pool but Hungary does it from the diving board.
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Hey, folks in Brussels, any party idea for the weekend?
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I'm really puzzled by what Hungary's notoriously pro-Russian foreign minister claims. 1. If this statement is true and the Russian Orthodox Church can bring Ukrainian soldiers captured by Russia to Hungarian soil without the Hungarian government's involvement - I mean, someone…
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Viktor Orbán's anti-Ukrainian attacks have reached a new level. Orbán alleges that EU funds are withheld from Hungary because Brussels had spent it on supporting Ukraine - which is a clear lie. EU funds are frozen due to rampant corruption and rule of law violations in Hungary.
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200 journalists worldwide were selected as targets for surveillance by authoritarian & corrupt regimes. My phone was hacked for 7 months with a spyware called Pegasus, forensic analyses by @amnesty & @citizenlab confirmed. That’s life.😬 #PegasusProject
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4/ According to opposition MP Ágnes Vadai, "this means there is a de-NATOisation going on in the Hungarian Defence Forces at the moment", as "the 45-year-old officers and generals are soldiers with international experience, who speak languages and have been socialised in NATO".
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Orbán stresses that securing cheap Russian gas prices is the single most important issue for Hungary. MFA Péter Szijjártó even declared that Hungary would veto EU sanctions on Russian gas & oil. This MTI photo of Szijjártó hugging Gazprom CEO Alexey Miller could symbolize it all.
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A Hungarian anti-Putin activist has wrapped a recently renovated, Gazprom-funded Soviet monument in black foil. "We also covered with a black veil the Soviet monument in Nagybajom, Hungary newly renovated and funded by Gazprom. Namely, because Russia has recently violated…
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Just an average day in Hungary: Soviet WW2 monument was inaugurated with the participation of Russian and Belarusian diplomats. The renovation of the Soviet monument in the town of Nagybajom was financially supported by Gazprom. Of course, wreaths with Russian ribbons were laid.
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‼️Pedophilia cover-up scandal hits Hungary, and the opposition is calling for the resignation of President @KatalinNovak_HU . This comes after revelations that she pardoned a pedophile’s accomplice who helped cover up his boss’ sexual abuse of children at an orphanage. In April…
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A series of new deals boosting Hungary's energy links with Russia will only prolong the war, top Zelensky adviser Oleg Ustenko said. “If you’ve seen the video where Russians cut the head off a Ukrainian soldier - the Hungarians are paying for the knife."
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In the previous EU budget cycle, Hungary received roughly €30 billion, about one third of which could have fallen into the wrong hands, @Transparency_HU 's @jozsef_martin told @RFERL Hungary. That's €10 billion affected by corruption, or simply stolen, under the Orbán regime.
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2/ After Viktor Orbán came to power in 2010, Szájer famously drafted a new constitution for Hungary on his iPad (yes, really), becoming the legal architect of Orbán’s regime. There was no consultation with the opposition or anyone outside the government.
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"Mr. Orbán has no future in Europe", the International Auschwitz Committee reacts to Orbán's anti-race mixing speech, mentioning that Orbán also joked with the Holocaust when talking about reducing gas consumption ("past shows us German know-how on that").
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My great-grandfather, Dezso Schiffer was a salesman from Tokaj, Hungary’s famous wine region. He had 7 children. They were so poor the kids slept in one large bed. All I know about them is from my grandma, Katalin, a survivor of Auschwitz. Follow @AuschwitzMuseum #Auschwitz75
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Auschwitz Memorial
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We once again wish to ask all of you for your support. Please, help @Auschwitzmuseum reach 1 million followers for #Auschwitz75 on Jan 27, 2020. RT, spread the word, let @Twitter community know about our account where every day we educate about the history of #Auschwitz .
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Unbelievable: using @Pontifex 's visit to Budapest as an excuse, Hungarian President @KatalinNovakMP pardons convicted far-right terrorist György Budaházy and other members of his so-called Hunnia Movement terrorist cell. Their prison sentence is now suspended. Between 2007-2008,…
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“I’m injured!” (“megsérültem!”), shouts a Hungarian @NATO_KFOR soldier on this video of Serbians violently attacking them. There are more than 20 🇭🇺 soldiers injured, 7 of them severely. (Meanwhile, Orbán’s government gives full political support to Serbia and Republika Srpska.)
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Marija Ristić
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Dramatic footage from the streets of Zvecan by @evropaelire . Kosovo police confirms five people were arrested, while at least 41 @NATO_KFOR soldiers were injured, most of them Italian and Hungarian troops.
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There’s this joke in Hungary about PM Orban’s curse: any strongman he meets will be losing power in months or weeks. (Mubarak in 2011, Yanukovych in 2012, Fico - losing his bid for president - in 2014, or Strache in 2019.) Orban met #Lukashenka for the first time in early June.
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How money from a Hungarian "pro-government businessman" is secretly flowing to Viktor Orbán's family using a method very similar to money laundering: @G7gazdasag has revealed a scheme were so-called 'preferred shares', front companies and stooges are used to hide the money flow.…
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3/ Here’s the English version of Hungary’s (Szájer’s) constitution. 'Article L' on "protecting the institution of marriage as the union of a man and a woman" was inserted, essentially making it impossible for gay couples to get married. But that’s not all.
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4/ It’s not just about marriage - this part of the constitution on marriage and families became a reference point for future legislations aimed at restricting the rights and freedom of LGBT people. Moreover, it became the legal justification for Viktor Orbán’s culture war.
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Obviously the best part: when the police came in to break up the party, some participants of the sex orgy tried to zip down their pants, believing that the raid is also just part of the show.
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"Poles and Hungarians are the most frequent guests”, the host of the Brussels sex orgy claims. According to David Manzheley, among them are nine politicians - both MEPs and MPs - from Viktor Orbán’s Fidesz party, but PiS politicians are regular guests too.
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Hungarian students rallied in front of the office of PM Viktor Orbán - labeled as “DICK-TATOR” in a banner -, police used tear gas and force against them. For many weeks now, students and teachers have been protesting against a new law curbing teachers’ rights. Pics: @Telexhu
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🇭🇺❤️🇷🇺Here's my previous thread on how Viktor Orbán's government is continuously favoring the Kremlin's interest over NATO, EU, and sometimes even Hungarian national interests. And these are only the examples we at @direkt36 have uncovered over the years!
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👀At @direkt36 , we've investigated Viktor Orbán's shady deals with Putin's circles and found tons of worrying examples when Hungarian government decisions clearly benefited the Kremlin - even at the expense of Hungarian & EU/NATO interests. 🧵Thread👇
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Scoop: Zelensky is considering to appoint Sandor Fedir as Ukraine's ambassador to Hungary, 🇭🇺&🇺🇦 sources tell me (it's not a done deal yet). Fedir is a university professor of Hungarian ethinicity who became famous for giving lectures from the battlefield.
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‘Putin’s favorite congressman’ Dana Rohrabacher just lost his seat in California. He was chairman of the U.S. House Subcommittee on Europe, Eurasia and Emerging Threats where he helped out Viktor Orbán’s lobbyists by staging sham hearings multiple times.
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💥Hungary’s disgraced president @KatalinNovak_HU announced her resignation on TV. Unbelievable. Katalin Novák, a close Orbán ally and fomer minister of family affairs, pardoned a convicted pedophile’s accomplice who helped cover up his boss’ sexual abuse of children at an…
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💥Update: the fallout of @KatalinNovak_HU 's pedophilia pardoning scandal is enormous. Viktor Orbán switched to damage control mode and set to curb the president's pardoning powers when it comes to crimes committed against children. He essentially threw her under the bus. This…
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5/ Just a few examples (and I’m gonna be using lots of Guardian articles by @floragaramvolgy and @shaunwalker7 on this)... Most recently, a consitutional amendment was introduced that "would ensure that only heterosexual married couples can adopt children”
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Hungarian visual artist szarvas (Peter Somogyi) reimagined the logo of Prime Minister Viktor Orbán’s pro-Russian Fidesz party. (via @danielrenyi )
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Orbán's kiss off death: @Polityka_pl reports that Law and Justice (PiS) politicians partly blame their election defeat on Hungarian advisors of Viktor Orbán. They had crucial influence over the PiS campaign from late June - and completely fucked it up.
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Road of Uyghur martyrs Free Hongkong Road Dalai Lama Road Bishop Xie Shiguang Road - Opposition-led Budapest shows the middle finger by renaming streets around the area where PM Orbán’s gov't is building a campus for China’s Fudan University. THREAD👇
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Many ethnic Hungarians from the Transcarpathian region have fought in the Ukrainian army to defend their country against Russia - even women & even artists like Tímea Fábián. Meanwhile, Hungary's government is blocking EU aid to Ukraine as well as high level Ukraine-NATO talks.
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Ukraine United
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Timea Fabian exhanged her violin for a machine gun when the war began. She spent months at the frontlines. Glory to Hero! #shorts #slavaUkraine #Ukraine #Russianinvasionofukraine #PutinIsAggresor #WeWillWin
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Orbán's resigning adviser tells the PM that her Jewish father barely survived forced labour & her mother was almost shot into the Danube. "This horror could only have happened because too many people were silent when the kind of hatred the Nazis were building on was being born."
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‼️PM Viktor Orbán's long-time adviser, Zsuzsa Hegedüs resigns, telling his boss in a letter that "I don't know how you didn't notice that you were turning your earlier anti-migrant and anti-Europeanism into a pure Nazi speech worthy of Goebbels". @hvg_hu :
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In his controversial speech, Orbán also said that "the statement that Russia will not stop at Ukraine is a weak propaganda talking point used by Ukraine. (...)It lacks any basis in reality." I'm curious how Poland's gov't feels about this. Some questions should be asked. THREAD👇
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6/ In May - also following up on Szájer's original 'Article L’ -, Orbán’s parliamentary majority "has voted to end legal recognition for trans people (...) The new law defines gender as based on chromosomes at birth”.
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2/ A new government decree has allowed the Minister of Defense to unilaterally terminate the service of soldiers who have reached the age of 45 and have at least 25 years of actual service, with two months' notice.
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👀🕵️Leaked intelligence reveals how Hungary and Russia worked together to help the Slovak government and then-prime minister Peter Pellegrini stay in power in 2020. Now he is the frontrunner to become Slovakia’s next president. @VSquare_Project @ICJK_sk
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No question, Viktor Orbán's scarfgate (wearing a scarf with a map of Greater Hungary printed on it) has triggered the funniest response from @MFA_Austria . @POLITICOEurope 's report:
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Szabolcs Panyi
11 months
👀Hungary’s government knew he was an undercover GRU spy but still let Russian diplomat Anton Goriev network with Hungary’s radicals for years. Then he was reassigned to Slovakia, and got expelled for espionage in 2022. 🔗Read our @VSquare_Project story:
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Szabolcs Panyi
3 years
7/ It’s not just about what is included in the constitution drafted by Szájer - it is just as important what’s lacking. For example, there is no constitutional protection against discrimination based on the grounds of sexual orientation.
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Szabolcs Panyi
3 years
10/ From last year: "Hungary will not participate in next year’s Eurovision song contest, amid speculation the decision was taken because the competition is “too gay” for the taste of the country’s far-right government and public media bosses."
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Szabolcs Panyi
2 years
"Hungary will support all EU sanctions against Russia and will not block anything, PM Orban said on Saturday, speaking on the Ukrainian-Hungarian border." (Reuters) This shouldn't be news at all, but it is. International pressure, especially from Polish PM Morawiecki, worked.
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Szabolcs Panyi
3 years
11/ Recently, the government's anti-gay crusade reached new levels when even Viktor Orbán spoke out against a children’s book (!) with LGBTQ characters, saying that "there is a red line that cannot be crossed (...) Leave our children alone!"
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Szabolcs Panyi
8 months
‼️Hungary's government has essentially canceled all major infrastructure developments for Budapest and its metro area, including important railway projects, many co-funded by the EU. The move is seen as a retaliation partly against the opposition-controlled capital, led by…
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Szabolcs Panyi
2 years
Huge protest happening now in Budapest, but not by opposition parties - these are thousands of students rallying in support of teachers. Teachers were not permitted to go on strike, but when they did it anyway, many of them were fired by a gov’t-controlled education authority.
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Sándor Zsíros
2 years
Happening now: thousands of protesting #students are blocking Margaret-bridge in central Budapest, demanding better pay, working conditions and appreciation for their teachers. The demo comes after several high school teachers were fired for going on strike. Pic: @euronewshu
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Szabolcs Panyi
7 months
🔎💰THE SECRET HISTORY OF VIKTOR ORBÁN’S FAVORITE COMPANY Our new @direkt36 investigation reveals how PM Viktor Orbán personally negotiated with a Chinese investment fund on behalf of a seemingly privately owned Hungarian IT company, 4iG, for the acquisition of some…
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Szabolcs Panyi
3 years
9/ The whole anti-gay crusade became such an integral part of the Orbán government’s agenda that it started allying itself with some really weird and scary people.
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Szabolcs Panyi
1 year
3/ According to @Telexhu , the minister "dismissed members of the Defence Staff en masse. (...) One source said (...) that at least a hundred colonels, generals had been given unilateral dismissals, while another said that 157 (...) with immediate effect."
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Szabolcs Panyi
7 months
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Szabolcs Panyi
3 years
8/ And then there is all the culture war going on, where the Szájer-drafted constitution always comes up as an argument against anything that is pro-LGBTQ. Look at this story from last year, for example:
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Szabolcs Panyi
7 months
Wait, why does a prime minister bow to another country’s foreign minister? It’s just bizarre to see such servile behavior from a politican like Orbán who demands respect and talks all the time about national sovereignty and pride. (Lavrov is not even a host as they’re in China.)
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Balázs Gulyás
7 months
@PM_ViktorOrban met Vladimir Putin today. He bowed to #Russian FM Sergey Lavrov before the meeting.
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Szabolcs Panyi
3 years
‼️📡📱How Hungarian press freedom came under attack in Orbán’s Hungary - our in-depth investigation into how journalists, media company owners & their close circles were targeted with Israeli spyware Pegasus. 🙄 I’m one of the targets btw. Please share:
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Szabolcs Panyi
3 years
It’s official: Hungarian opposition parties announce full cooperation at the 2022 elections. Instead of their usual free-for-all (which handed a 2/3 majority to Viktor Orban in 2014 & 2018), there will be a joint party list led by a joint candidate for PM.
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Szabolcs Panyi
3 years
A Hungarian opposition party leader just told me that all six opposition parties reached an agreement to form a joint party list at the 2022 elections - official announcement expected before Christmas. As recent polls have shown, if united, the opposition can beat Orban’s Fidesz.
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Szabolcs Panyi
7 months
Is it just me, or is Orbán indeed looking a little bit nervous here?
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Mariia Kramarenko
7 months
That’s a lot of movement from Orban
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Szabolcs Panyi
8 days
It must be damn hard to be a Chinese intelligence officer tasked with spying on the EU these days. You want to recruit some far-right politicians but it always turns out you're late and they're already working for Russia. So all you're left with are their lousy assistants.
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Bojan Pancevski
8 days
A rare Russo-Chinese spying allegations nexus: Germany's AfD leading EU elections candidate was questioned by the FBI regarding allegations that he took money from Russians: Now his parliamentary assistant was arrested for allegedly spying for China
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Szabolcs Panyi
6 years
Poland’s anti-Kremlin ruling party was approached by Steve Bannon with the idea to establish a European far-right alliance - along with a bunch of pro-Kremlin parties (). Read this blunt rejection () translated&posted by Marcin Rey.
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Szabolcs Panyi
6 years
Bombshell leak by Viktor Orbán’s former close ally suggests the existence of a ‘HUNGARIAN LAUNDROMAT’. -Stolen EU funds are laundered through diamonds&Arab shadow banking, hawala -FBI uncovered the scheme&has a key witness under protection in the US My ENG translation&thread:
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Szabolcs Panyi
3 months
🫡Viktor Orbán has lost some of his best soldiers to political scandals these past years - let’s remember them:
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Szabolcs Panyi
2 years
2/ When MFA Péter Szijjártó received the Order of Friendship from Sergey Lavrov - awarded by Putin himself - he already knew well that his ministry has been completely hacked by Russia. He didn’t confront the Russians but praised Moscow and their great cooperation with Hungary.
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Szabolcs Panyi
2 years
😬Orbán's foreign minister: “An agreement regarding possible EU sanctions against Russian energy supplies or their interruption will most likely not be reached (...) We will not support sanctions that could pose a risk to energy supplies for Hungary.”
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Szabolcs Panyi
4 months
💰Viktor Orbán’s childhood friend, Lőrinc Mészáros, has retaken the title of Hungary’s richest person, according to Forbes Hungary’s new estimate (wealth: €1.6b). 📈Orbán’s son-in-law, István Tiborcz, is rising fast too. His estimated wealth of €200m made him the 27th richest.
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Szabolcs Panyi
7 years
This was spotted on a Polish truck in Austria, referring to Lukasz Urban, the hero lorry driver of the #BerlinAttack
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Szabolcs Panyi
1 year
A Russian agent "collected classified information about the leadership and staff of the law enforcement agencies of Ukraine. The man planned to personally transfer the data to the Russian Embassy in Budapest on a flash drive” hidden in his anus. Yupp. 👇
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Szabolcs Panyi
1 year
"Tear gas doesn't teach!" - thousands of Hungarian students are chanting this at a protest against the Orbán government's education policies in Budapest. During the last two protests, 15-17 years old students were tear gassed by Hungarian police. Pics: Istvan Huszti @Telexhu
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Szabolcs Panyi
1 year
Hungary wanted everyone to believe that it's only acting on its own national interest when constantly vetoing official high-level NATO-Ukraine talks (since 2017). And that it's just mere coincidence that Russia benefits from those vetoes. NATO allies have finally lost patience.
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Szabolcs Panyi
5 months
Orbán bowed out last minute, walking out of the room as the rest of the EU unanimously approved accession talks with Ukraine. Apparently, he didn't dare to veto. This should be an extremely important lesson to all EU leaders: Ignore Orbán's threats, he's just bluffing as always.
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