Several edifices that were significant landmarks of pre-WWII Budapest disappeared during the 20th century—one of the most memorable of them was the Elevator House.

John C. Swanson’s book Tangible Belonging provides not only a rare insight into the life of German-speaking villagers in Hungary, but also into the complexity of ethnic identity and interwar minority formation.

The Great Patriotic War, the Russian Empire and Ukraine are the three recurring themes that constitute the pillars of the Russian President’s historical narrative.

The scaremongering about the deterioration of US-Israeli relations is odd, since the relationship started to worsen first after Barack Obama threw the Middle East under the bus for Iran, and now Joe Biden wants to restore a nuclear deal whose only apparent purpose is to give Iran easy and quick access to nuclear weapons.

While Eastern and Western Germany do converge with the passing of time, as values are transmitted from generation to generation, the ‘shadow’ of Communism is here to stay for decades to come.

Hungary’s culinary delights are not limited to the capital. As the new Michelin Guide also attests, visitors and local residents alike can have a spectacular dining experience in practically every corner of the country now.

Politicians of the Republican Party would like to see the belligerents to come to an agreement as soon as possible and the bloodshed that has been going on for eight months to finally come to an end.

A further addition to the tearful eulogies galore for American democracy, Paul Krugman’s New York Times article likens the Democrats’ nightmare scenario to Orbán’s Hungary. Really?

According to US geopolitical strategist George Friedman, who predicted Russia’s attack on Ukraine way before 2022, Moscow will be eventually forced to negotiate a peace settlement.

‘Support for Ukraine has evolved into the defining issue in debates over national identity as pro-European Union coalition governments increasingly define themselves against populist opposition parties.’

As a result of the discrimination by the Israeli authorities and because of Islamic oppression, the socio-cultural and spiritual connections that are the backbone of Palestinian Christians’ collective identity have been dramatically weakened.

‘I expect that the Republicans will have a comfortable majority in the House, and will also take the Senate, with a two- to four-seat majority.’

Doubts expressed about the validity of that science can no longer be entertained, and questions directed toward its emissaries can no longer be answered. 

The renowned American academic, Noam Chomsky has been labelled as morally corrupt for advocating for peace talks to end the war in Ukraine.

‘The distinction between God and Caesar is in the DNA of Christianity. And many have not yet realized that it has fundamentally shaped the West.’

Hungarian Foreign Minister Péter Szijjártó reaffirmed Hungary’s position that member states have a sovereign right to determine what energy carriers they acquire and in what quantities, from whom, and based on what price formula, following a summit of EU energy ministers at the end of October.

The approach of Weis to welfare, an attitude that in fact prevailed under the Teleki government, was not only sensitive to social issues, but also subscribed to the idea of an ‘anti-capitalist democracy’, and also to ‘progress’ and ‘social justice’.

In the 1960s, the so-called mass housing programme was launched, with the objective of constructing 1 million apartments in 15 years, a quarter of which, 250,000 apartments, only in Budapest.

The renovation of the interior of Hungary’s iconic Parliament building is set to begin soon, to restore its original splendour worn out by long use.

After being postponed due to the emerging global Covid pandemic and held under strange circumstances without spectators amidst political tension and the Covid hysteria fuelled by the media, a growing corruption scandal is now further tainting the troubled legacy of the Tokyo Olympics.

The square had lots of famous hotels, infamous pubs and notable restaurants, but the Two Lions Inn has always stood out from them.

Talks between the government and trade unions have started, with union leaders aiming for a 15–20 per cent increase of the minimum wage in 2023.

All empires and major powers have a strong sense of their own exceptionality, so criticizing Russia in that regard is not reasonable.

The internet challenge intended to raise awareness about the negative effects of pornography is getting more popular every year. But so is opposing it.

The reason for the creation of an underground railway was simple: the Budapest Public Works Council, which was partially responsible for the construction of the avenue, did not allow laying tram tracks on the surface, as they would have ‘spoiled’ the avenue’s elegance.

Radnóti’s memory was soon hijacked by the Communist Party’s unsolicited worshippers. In a certain sense, of course, the poet was a natural choice for Communist memory politics.

The translation of the Book of Books into Hungarian not only contributed to the establishment of the Reformation in Hungary, but also had a fundamentally important effect on the social and cultural development of the country.

Warsaw has inked contracts worth billions of euros with US and Korean companies to build nuclear power plants.

A Hungarian conservative think tank set to open in Brussels this month is expected to stir the pot in Brussels by challenging dominant liberal narratives.

After Peter the Great, Alexander II is known to be the greatest reformer of the Russian Empire. What his rule teaches us is that historic development does not go in a straight line—usually, when a country takes two steps forward, it also takes a step back.