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ung man had been removed from the party way back in 2012 the proof they presented was specious in the past magyar nemzet would have supported the fidesz position regardless of how ridiculous it was but not this time let s start with the headline he didn t pay his membership fee and therefore was expelled the article continues with an honest description of the case and leaves no doubt that the fidesz version is most likely untrue in fact when the article refers to the culprit as the former chairman of the organization the writer or the editor put a question mark after the word former the same is true of zsuzsanna körmendy who used to write the most vicious editorials about the opposition and was always supportive of the government and fidesz zsolt bayer predicted that everybody from csaba lukács to zsuzsanna körmendy will quit because they will not be ready to write articles demanded by simicska yet today körmendy wrote a piece titled self examination never hurts here körmendy confronts her readers with the steady decline in fidesz support and calls on the party to examine its decisions thoroughly from here on the government should make wiser and more thoughtful decisions because there is nothing more pitiful and destructive than taking back in full or in part earlier decisions one ought not to experiment with citizens who have been losing their patience this kind of language is new in magyar nemzet so it s no wonder that policy agenda a think tank is certain that after five years of governing fidesz has lost its media which will be deadly for the future of the party but that s not all the most faithful gábor borókai editor in chief of heti valóság who served viktor orbán s government as its spokesman between 1998 and 2002 stood by lajos simicska and against his former boss in an editorial that appeared today for borókai it is obvious that with the simicska orbán duel an unpredictable tectonic shift began that will turn into an elemental rearrangement on the right according to him that kind of change has been long in coming in plain language the performance of the third orbán government is dismal in the past year viktor orbán has been preoccupied with his balancing act between merkel and putin while at home everything is falling apart people have had enough of a government that wants to rearrange every facet of their lives they want to be left alone of course borókai is still a man of the right but not the kind that orbán surrounds himself with these days he is yearning for the western strong sovereign and polgári hungary which viktor orbán wanted to build in 1998 in 2010 orbán set out to fulfill this wish and he did rebuild a devastated economy but since then everything around us has changed for the worse while searching for new solutions one shouldn t forget the original goal otherwise the chandelier will fall on us borókai s piece is full of contradictions but it must be difficult to admit that his assessment of viktor orbán and his ideology has most likely been wrong all along even in 1998 when he decided to represent the first orbán government at one point he claims that it is not too late for fidesz to find itself but elsewhere he talks about an elemental reorganization of the right eventually these right wing journalists will sort out their ideas but at least they have begun writing as individuals instead of media servants of the government meanwhile reporters without borders published its world press freedom index 2014 in the last four years hungary s ranking dropped from 23d to 64th out of 180 countries while the situation in poland the czech republic and slovakia is considered to be good in hungary there are noticeable problems even the romanian press is freer than the hungarian hungary is in the cluster with croatia serbia kosovo macedonia greece and albania nothing to be proud of but perhaps there will be a revolt of the right wing journalists and with it will come a freer press and perhaps even political change share this share on x opens in new window x share on facebook opens in new window facebook like loading posted in hungarian politics and tagged fidesz gábor borókai gábor fodor hírtv heti válasz lajos simicska magyar nemzet péter tarr reporters without borders szabolcs szerető viktor orbán zsuzsanna körmendy on february 12 2015 by eva s balogh 24 comments russia hungary and the hungarian minority in ukraine a few days ago an article appeared in foreign affairs with the somewhat sensational title the hungarian putin viktor orban and the kremlin s playbook written by mitchell a orenstein péter krekó and attila juhász orenstein is a professor of political science at northeastern university in boston and an associate of the davis center for russian and eurasian studies at harvard university krekó and juhász are associates of the hungarian think tank political capital the question the article poses is whether hungary entertains any irredentist plans as far as her neighbors are concerned similar to the way in which russia behaved earlier in abkhazia and now in ukraine after all the russian attacks on those territories were preceded by a grant of russian citizenship to ukrainians and abkhazians to this question the answer is negative viktor orbán may sound bellicose at times but he is interested in the hungarians living in the neighboring countries only as a source of extra votes and perhaps a reservoir of immigrants to a country with dismal demographic figures the authors claim however that there is a delicate balance which could easily topple what created this delicate balance although hungary s radical right wing fascist and irredentist party jobbik has virtually no support among hungarians abroad it is still possible that aggressive separatist political movements especially those with external political support could act as though they have a majority beyond them as in eastern ukraine i must say that the exact meaning of this claim is unclear to me but the authors argument is that the nationalist political use of hungarians abroad in hungary could set the stage for such extremism and instability in neighboring countries in ukraine such a danger is real where orban has taken advantage of political chaos to press hungarian minority issues in the sub carpathian region of western ukraine adjacent to hungary there are far too many ifs here but it is true that orbán did announce his claim to autonomy for the hungarian minority at the most inappropriate moment during the first russian attacks on eastern ukraine it is unlikely that hungary could convince ukraine s western friends to force kiev to grant autonomy to the hungarians of sub carpathian ukraine zakarpattia oblast who constitute 12 1 of the total population of the province in 2001 they numbered 151 500 but since then it is possible that many of them either left for hungary or with the help of a hungarian passport migrated farther west on the other hand one occasionally hears russian voices outlining ambitious plans for ukraine and its minorities for example in march 2014 vladimir zhirinovsky head of the nationalist liberal democratic party that backs vladimir putin suggested that poland hungary and romania might wish to take back regions which were their territories in the past romania might want chrnivtsi hungary the zaparpattia region and poland the volyn lviv ternopil ivano frankivsk and rovensky regions thus ukraine would be free of unnecesssary tensions and bring prosperity and tranquility to the ukrainian native land or there is the russian nationalist ideologue aleksandr dugin the promoter of a russian led eurasian empire that would incorporate austria as well as hungary romania serbia and slovakia although dugin s specific recommendations were first reported on a far right hungarian site called alfahir hu the news spread rapidly beyond the borders of hungary dugin is an enemy of nation states and would like to see the return of empires if let s say hungary romania serbia slovakia or perhaps even volhynia and austria would unite all hungarians would be within one country everything would return to the state that existed before trianon of course dugin s argument is specious surely a united europe offers exactly the same advantages to the hungarian minorities that dugin recommends but without the overlordship of putin s russia one could discount these suggestions as fantasies but something is in the air in russia the country s foreign minister considers the fate of the hungarian minority in ukraine to be of such importance that at the munich security conference a couple of days ago he spent a considerable amount of time on the minority s grievances mind you sergei lavrov s speech was met with derision by those present as the reporter of bloomberg described the scene the crowd laughed at and booed him apparently during his 45 minute speech he rewrote the history of the cold war accused the west of fomenting a coup in ukraine and declared himself to be a champion of the united nations charter from our point of view the most interesting part of the speech was the time he spent on the hungarian minority in the zakarpattia oblast i think it is worth quoting lavrov s answer to a question that addresses this issue the ukrainians are probably embarrassed to say it here but now ukraine is undergoing mobilization which is running into serious difficulties representatives of the hungarian romanian minorities feel positive discrimination because they are called up in much larger proportions than ethnic ukrainians why not talk about it or that in ukraine reside not only ukrainians and russians but there are other nationalities which by fate ended up in this country and want to live in it why not provide them with equal rights and take into account their interests during the elections to the verkhovnaya rada the hungarian minority asked to organize constituencies in such a way that at least one ethnic hungarian would make it to the rada the constituencies were sliced so that none of the hungarians made it all this suggests that there is something to discuss perhaps the most amusing part of the paragraph lavrov devoted to the hungarian and romanian minorities in ukraine is his claim that fate was responsible for these ethnic groups incorporation into the soviet union i remember otherwise the soviet government kept the old trianon borders without any adjustments based on ethnic considerations the ethnic map of zakarpattia oblast shows that such an adjustment shouldn t have been too difficult a task ethnic map of zakarpattia obast source http en wikipedia org wiki zakarpattia_oblast the small hungarian minority is obviously being used by the russians to further their own claims which in turn might encourage viktor orbán to pursue his quest for autonomous status for the largely hungarian inhabited regions of the oblast the orbán government supports autonomy for the szeklers of central transylvania despite the romanian hungarian basic treaty of september 1996 that set aside the issue of territorial autonomy to which romania strenuously objected the treaty had to be signed because nato and eu membership depended on it the ukrainian situation is different because ukraine is not part of the eu whether orbán will accept the tacit or even open assistance of russia for the sake of the hungarian minority in ukraine remains to be seen in any case to everybody s surprise viktor orbán will pay a visit to kiev where he will meet with president petro poroshenko share this share on x opens in new window x share on facebook opens in new window facebook like loading posted in hungarian politics and tagged aleksandr dugin attila juhász european union hungarian minority in ukraine hungary mitchell a orenstein péter krekó petro poroshenko russia sergei lavrov ukraine viktor orbán vladimir putin vladimir zhirinovsky zakarpattia oblast on february 11 2015 by eva s balogh 54 comments putin s visit strategic impetus for future russian hungarian relations yesterday the russian ambassador to hungary vladimir sergeyev when asked about russian president vladimir putin s visit to hungary basically repeated what prime minister viktor orbán has been telling the hungarians in the last few days putin s visit to budapest is nothing out of the ordinary the main topic of the talks will be the extension of a long term contract that will ensure the uninterrupted flow of natural gas from russia to hungary the contract is due to expire this year hence the urgency of the negotiations sergeyev emphasized that putin s visit has nothing whatsoever to do with the overall situation in the world and the tension we now observe in addition to energy questions the two leaders will discuss cooperation in tourism and culture all this sounds utterly innocent until we get to the last sentence that the talks are designed to give a strategic impetus to the future development of relations viktor orbán although he is usually quite tight mouthed also indicated perhaps unwittingly that over and above the question of energy we must strive for a truly balanced relation that s why we invited and welcome president putin these sentences indicate that the conversations will go beyond economic relations suspicion is growing in budapest that the urgent issue of the gas supply from russia is only an excuse for a visit by the russian president the real reason is what ambassador sergeyev called a strategic impetus for closer relations between the two countries and that is a political not an economic issue let s return briefly to lajos simicska the oligarch to whom viktor orbán owes his rise to power but who is no longer orbán s friend in his interview with magyar narancs simicska told the reporter that after the april elections he had a long conversation with viktor orbán during which the prime minister outlined his plans which simicska did not like among other things orbán shared his views of russian hungarian relations which simicska found odious he expressed his disapproval of orbán s scheme saying no i don t like it at all i grew up at the time when the soviet union was still here and i don t have pleasant memories of the activities of the russians in hungary i can t really see any difference between the behavior of the former soviets and the political behavior of today s russians i am sure that simicska s anti russian feelings are genuine he was known for his intense dislike of the soviets even as a high school student this antipathy most likely had something to do with his father s involvement in the revolution of 1956 and the reprisals the family suffered as a result if his old friend viktor had talked to him only about economic ties and a secure supply of gas surely simicska wouldn t have reacted so negatively a romanian view putin will visit hungary a challenge to the united states source independent md no it is becoming clear that the urgent negotiations about a long term gas contract are only a smokescreen although...