2+ day, 10+ hour ago   (425+ words) Yet the anniversary also draws attention to another, far less obvious connection. Hungary, a country located thousands of kilometres from Ground Zero, appears repeatedly in the story of that day, and not only on the sidelines. ‘The man directing New…...

2+ day, 19+ hour ago   (340+ words) The Foreign Ministry of Hungary is senselessly dismantling its network of career diplomats around the world without even ensuring that they will be properly replaced, former foreign economic attaché Ádám Pulay states, as reported by Hirtv.hu. Pulay recently resigned…...

5+ day, 22+ hour ago   (244+ words) Germany is on high alert as a home-made missile launcher was discovered by Cologne police near the Weisweiler power plant in Eschweiler, Germany, on Monday, 7 September. The launcher was reportedly aimed at a high-voltage transmission line that carries electricity from…...

5+ day, 23+ hour ago   (478+ words) Hungary has ordered ten members of Russia’s diplomatic mission to leave the country after authorities concluded that they had carried out activities incompatible with diplomatic status, Foreign Minister Anita Orbán announced on Tuesday, 8 September, prompting Moscow to vow a ‘harsh…...

6+ day, 11+ hour ago   (242+ words) People are increasingly declaring Sunday’s Saxony-Anhalt state election ‘rigged’ after a major controversy erupted in Germany over in-person versus postal-vote data showing that the Alternative für Deutschland (AfD) received an outright majority among voters who cast their ballots in person…...

1+ week, 3+ day ago   (295+ words) Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov said Thursday that Moscow would close Goethe Institute offices in Moscow, St Petersburg and Yekaterinburg after German authorities decided to shut down the Russian House cultural centre in Berlin. ‘Of course they will be closed,…...

1+ week, 4+ day ago   (257+ words) Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy fired a senior official of the Security Service of Ukraine (SBU) on Wednesday, hours after a shootout between SBU officers and Ukrainian military intelligence personnel in Kyiv. The official dismissed is Oleh Khramov, head of the…...

1+ week, 5+ day ago   (240+ words) Ádám Bodor, former deputy CEO for mobility at the Centre for Budapest Transport (BKK), has been appointed the company’s new chief executive by Budapest Mayor Gergely Karácsony, effective 1 September, BKK said on Tuesday. Bodor joined BKK at the end of…...

2+ week, 3+ day ago   (209+ words) Grigory Karasin accused Prime Minister Péter Magyar on Friday of joining Europe’s ‘battalion of hatred and hostility towards Russia’, reacting to the new government’s instructions for its delegation to the UN General Assembly that described Russia as a ‘threat to…...

2+ week, 5+ day ago   (383+ words) A US Air Force C-17 Globemaster III military transport plane landed at Moscow’s Vnukovo Airport on Tuesday morning on an unexplained flight from Latvia, immediately fuelling speculation over whether Washington is preparing new diplomatic contact with Russia. Public flight-tracking data show…...