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BBC Entertainment Invites Viewers In Hungary To Vote For Their Favourite British Comedies
- 14 Nov 2012 8:02 AM
- entertainment
Over the next month BBC Entertainment is handing over control to viewers across Europe and the Middle East and inviting them to vote for their favourite British comedies of all time. Viewers will be given the power to vote from a mix of 30 programmes, which can be found here. These range from classic shows such as critically acclaimed Fawlty Towers and Blackadder to more contemporary titles ...
Anti-Semitic Assailant Gets Two Years In Hungary
- 16 Oct 2012 5:00 AM
- current affairs
An unspecified court on Monday handed down a two-year prison term to the man who assaulted András Kerényi, president of the south Pest region of the Budapest Jewish Religious Community in an overtly anti-Semitic attack on October 5.
Active Citizenship Award To March Of The Living In Hungary
- 30 Jul 2012 9:00 AM
- community & culture
Ambassador Kounalakis and Special Envoy to Monitor and Combat Anti-Semitism Hannah Rosenthal presented the Embassy’s Active Citizenship Award to Gabor Gordon of March of the Living Hungary on July 20.
Special Envoy Hannah Rosenthal Honors March Of The Living Hungary
- 24 Jul 2012 9:00 AM
- community & culture
March of the Living Hungary (MLH) was presented with U.S. Embassy’s Active Citizenship Award on July 20. Ambassador Kounalakis noted in her remarks that in the past two and a half years she had met a lot of people in Hungary who had made the country and their communities more livable through their hard work. She said there was “no better example for this attitude than March of the Living Hungary ...
Xpat Opinion: The Ethnicity Of Kata Bándy’s Rape-Killer On The Agenda In Hungary
- 21 Jul 2012 9:00 AM
- current affairs
By BudaPost: In the wake of the murder of a young woman by a Roma man, the internet is swarming with comments urging the reintroduction of the death penalty and with racist comments. A right-wing commentator believes “the Gypsies” should find a solution. Liberal commentators condemn what they see as racist reactions to the tragedy.
Hungary To Commemorate Nándorfehérvár Victory This Sunday
- 19 Jul 2012 10:00 AM
- current affairs
It will be 556 years on Sunday that the Christian Hungarian troops defending Nándorfehérvár, led by János Hunyadi, inflicted a crushing defeat on the army of Turkish Sultan Mehmet II on 22 July 1456 after a battle that ensued for more than two weeks, and thereby stopped the continued expansion of the Turks in Europe for some 70 years. Parliament declared this prominent day of Hungarian and ...
Now On: 'Internal Landscapes', Museum Of Fine Arts Budapest
- 24 Apr 2012 9:00 AM
- community & culture
We rarely meet representations of the countryside amongst the monuments of antique art preserved to us, and there are practically no landscape pictures in the modern sense of the term. There is, however, one sphere in which landscape elements play an essential role: the decorative art of the first two centuries of the Roman imperial period.
Now Showing: Highlighted Works Of Art , Museum of Fine Arts, Budapest
- 4 Jan 2012 8:04 AM
- community & culture
"One of the most heated debates in the current study of classical antiquity focuses on the relationship between magic and religion. The argument, unusually passionate – the significance of which far exceeds its own narrower field of scholarship – centered around one great dichotomy: is it indeed possible to separate magic and religion in the ancient Mediterranean, as so many previous ...
Gong With The Wind By Greg Dorey, British Ambassador To Hungary
- 13 Dec 2010 2:00 AM
- community & culture
"The traditional and the modern are about to come together at beautiful Gödöllő Palace, the venue for most of the Ministerial meetings under the Hungarian EU Presidency. I had not been to the Palace for some 20 years, when it was in ruinous condition.
BBC Entertainment Invites Viewers In Hungary To Vote For Their Favourite British Comedies
- 14 Nov 2012 8:02 AM
- entertainment
Over the next month BBC Entertainment is handing over control to viewers across Europe and the Middle East and inviting them to vote for their favourite British comedies of all time. Viewers will be given the power to vote from a mix of 30 programmes, which can be found here. These range from classic shows such as critically acclaimed Fawlty Towers and Blackadder to more contemporary titles ...
Anti-Semitic Assailant Gets Two Years In Hungary
- 16 Oct 2012 5:00 AM
- current affairs
An unspecified court on Monday handed down a two-year prison term to the man who assaulted András Kerényi, president of the south Pest region of the Budapest Jewish Religious Community in an overtly anti-Semitic attack on October 5.
Active Citizenship Award To March Of The Living In Hungary
- 30 Jul 2012 9:00 AM
- community & culture
Ambassador Kounalakis and Special Envoy to Monitor and Combat Anti-Semitism Hannah Rosenthal presented the Embassy’s Active Citizenship Award to Gabor Gordon of March of the Living Hungary on July 20.
Special Envoy Hannah Rosenthal Honors March Of The Living Hungary
- 24 Jul 2012 9:00 AM
- community & culture
March of the Living Hungary (MLH) was presented with U.S. Embassy’s Active Citizenship Award on July 20. Ambassador Kounalakis noted in her remarks that in the past two and a half years she had met a lot of people in Hungary who had made the country and their communities more livable through their hard work. She said there was “no better example for this attitude than March of the Living Hungary ...
Xpat Opinion: The Ethnicity Of Kata Bándy’s Rape-Killer On The Agenda In Hungary
- 21 Jul 2012 9:00 AM
- current affairs
By BudaPost: In the wake of the murder of a young woman by a Roma man, the internet is swarming with comments urging the reintroduction of the death penalty and with racist comments. A right-wing commentator believes “the Gypsies” should find a solution. Liberal commentators condemn what they see as racist reactions to the tragedy.
Hungary To Commemorate Nándorfehérvár Victory This Sunday
- 19 Jul 2012 10:00 AM
- current affairs
It will be 556 years on Sunday that the Christian Hungarian troops defending Nándorfehérvár, led by János Hunyadi, inflicted a crushing defeat on the army of Turkish Sultan Mehmet II on 22 July 1456 after a battle that ensued for more than two weeks, and thereby stopped the continued expansion of the Turks in Europe for some 70 years. Parliament declared this prominent day of Hungarian and ...
Now On: 'Internal Landscapes', Museum Of Fine Arts Budapest
- 24 Apr 2012 9:00 AM
- community & culture
We rarely meet representations of the countryside amongst the monuments of antique art preserved to us, and there are practically no landscape pictures in the modern sense of the term. There is, however, one sphere in which landscape elements play an essential role: the decorative art of the first two centuries of the Roman imperial period.
Now Showing: Highlighted Works Of Art , Museum of Fine Arts, Budapest
- 4 Jan 2012 8:04 AM
- community & culture
"One of the most heated debates in the current study of classical antiquity focuses on the relationship between magic and religion. The argument, unusually passionate – the significance of which far exceeds its own narrower field of scholarship – centered around one great dichotomy: is it indeed possible to separate magic and religion in the ancient Mediterranean, as so many previous ...
Gong With The Wind By Greg Dorey, British Ambassador To Hungary
- 13 Dec 2010 2:00 AM
- community & culture
"The traditional and the modern are about to come together at beautiful Gödöllő Palace, the venue for most of the Ministerial meetings under the Hungarian EU Presidency. I had not been to the Palace for some 20 years, when it was in ruinous condition.