Vladimir Putin’s grip on Europe is slipping — and the next blow may come from one of his oldest allies. Hungary’s Prime Minister Viktor Orbán, long seen as the Kremlin’s most reliable friend inside the European Union, is facing a potential political reckoning.
Hungarian national security services have reportedly identified Georg Spöttle, a prominent government-aligned pundit and frequent media commentator, as a former agent of Russia’s GRU military intelligence. According to sources familiar with the investigation, Spöttle maintained contact with Colonel Oleg Smirnov, a former Russian military attaché in Budapest, who has now been identified as his handler.
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Things keep getting worse for Viktor Orbán. Already collapsing in the polls versus a young, fresh-faced party promising to prosecute him for looting Hungary into its position as the fourth-poorest country in Europe, Orbán now finds himself at the center of an espionage outrage. Ukraine has formally accused Hungary’s National Security Service (KNBSZ) of running a covert spy network against Ukraine since 2021—likely at the behest of Orbán’s Russian backers.
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Thousands of Hungarians gathered outside the Parliament Building in Budapest to protest a sweeping new bill introduced by Prime Minister Viktor Orbán’s Fidesz party— widely seen as a direct attack on press freedom, civil society, and democratic pluralism. The bill, deceptively titled On the Transparency of Public Life, targets media outlets, NGOs, and civic organizations that receive foreign funding— including EU grants.
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The results of Romania’s 2025 presidential election, in which the full force of Russia’s influence operations lost to a pro-EU, pro-democracy math professor, was made possible in part due to ethnic Hungarians. Against the backdrop of rising authoritarianism in Eastern Europe, the ethnic Hungarian Székely community of Transylvania stood up —
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Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor Orbán is charting a dangerous course— reviving the dream of a Greater Hungary by eyeing territories in Ukraine and the Balkans, with growing support from Vladimir Putin’s Russia. This irredentist project, rooted in grievances over the 1920 Treaty of Trianon, risks destabilizing Eastern Europe at a moment when the continent is already grappling with war, fragmentation, and the resurgence of authoritarianism.
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“I don’t want my children to grow up in a country where it’s legal to lie with Hungarian money, but illegal to tell the truth with foreign money,” says Hettyey András, political scientist and associate professor at Andrássy University Budapest.On May 14th, Hungary’s ruling Fidesz party submitted a bill that, on its face, claims to protect national sovereignty.
With Hungarian kleptocrat Orban likely facing electoral defeat next year, desperation and reliance on Russian assistance are making it clear of trajectory on a dangerous path. Hungary’s attacks on Ukraine have reached a feverish level, exacerbated by Russia’s familiar strategy of fabricating minority oppression to justify aggression.
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