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Serbian Fake Euro Seller Gets Suspended Sentence In Szeged
- 5 May 2016 9:00 AM
- current affairs
A Serbian man has been given a two-year prison sentence suspended for five years for selling counterfeit 100-euro notes in Szeged, the Csongrad County prosecutor’s office said on Wednesday. The man was found guilty of importing and selling counterfeit money in Hungary, and was expelled and banned from returning for five years, spokesman Ferenc Szanka said.
Xpat Opinion: Gábor Vona Of Jobbik Cleans House
- 25 Apr 2016 9:00 AM
- current affairs
Something momentous happened today in Hungarian party politics. Gábor Vona, chairman of Jobbik, got rid of three of his most radical deputies: Előd Novák, István Szávay, and István Apáti. In addition, he made it clear to Mrs. Lóránd Hegedűs, wife of the anti-Semitic, extremist Reformed minister, that she shouldn’t even try to put her name forward as a member of the executive board because he has ...
Chernobyl Marathon, Budapest, 25 – 26 April
- 25 Apr 2016 2:00 AM
- community & culture
The Blinken Open Society Archives invites you to its two-day series of programs spanning from morning till late at night, commemorating the thirtieth anniversary of the nuclear power plant disaster at Chernobyl. Evening programs include film and book launches and literary readings to help discuss the events that happened thirty years ago while also touching upon issues concerning the safety of ...
Treating A War Criminal At The Budapest Jewish Hospital
- 5 Apr 2016 9:00 AM
- current affairs
Béla Biszku, who died at age 94 last week, was Hungary’s most infamous unrepentant hard-line communist and the only official of the former pre-1989 regime ever prosecuted for crimes against humanity. Biszku served in the Hungarian Workers’ Party (Magyar Dolgozók Pártja) from 1949, as well as in its successor, the Hungarian Socialist Workers’ Party (Magyar Szocialista Munkáspárt – MSZMP), ...
Five Indicted In Buda-Cash Scandal
- 5 Apr 2016 9:00 AM
- current affairs
The Capital Prosecutor’s Office has indicted five people because of suspected embezzlement, fraud and other crimes in the collapse one year ago of the Buda-Cash brokerage. If found guilty they could be sentenced to up 25 years in prison, Budapest Prosecutor General Tibor Ibolya announced.
Xpat Opinion: Béla Biszku Dies At 94
- 4 Apr 2016 9:00 AM
- current affairs
A conservative and a liberal columnist remember the Communist hardliner, who was found guilty of involvement in war crimes. Former Communist leader Béla Biszku, who received a suspended sentence for involvement in war crimes passed away last Friday.
Court Rules For Transfer Of Hungarians Arrested In Prostitution Sting To France
- 24 Mar 2016 8:00 AM
- current affairs
A Budapest court ruled for the pre-trial detention and transfer to French authorities of ten out of the 12 Hungarian nationals suspected of trafficking Hungarian women to work as prostitutes in France. The French authorities put out a European arrest warrant for the 12 men who were taken into custody in Hungary on Monday in a raid coordinated with Hungarian police, the court said in a statement.
Twelve Men Arrested On Charges Of Running Prostitution Ring In France
- 22 Mar 2016 8:00 AM
- current affairs
A Hungarian and French police investigation has led to the arrest of twelve men suspected of trafficking Hungarian women to France to work as prostitutes. In raids carried out simultaneously by Hungarian police in Csongrád county, in southern Hungary, and French law enforcement on Monday morning, cash and assets worth several hundreds of millions of forints were seized, Viktória Csiszér- Kovács, ...
Hungarian Revolution
- 17 Mar 2016 8:00 AM
- community & culture
MÚK – these three letters, standing for MÁRCIUSBAN ÚJRA KEZDJÜK (we will start again in March), kept the Kádár regime in fear until it collapsed in 1989, but has been ingrained in the Hungarian mindset so much that even these days people look forward to March 15 with contained anticipation that unrest may occur.
Serbian Fake Euro Seller Gets Suspended Sentence In Szeged
- 5 May 2016 9:00 AM
- current affairs
A Serbian man has been given a two-year prison sentence suspended for five years for selling counterfeit 100-euro notes in Szeged, the Csongrad County prosecutor’s office said on Wednesday. The man was found guilty of importing and selling counterfeit money in Hungary, and was expelled and banned from returning for five years, spokesman Ferenc Szanka said.
Xpat Opinion: Gábor Vona Of Jobbik Cleans House
- 25 Apr 2016 9:00 AM
- current affairs
Something momentous happened today in Hungarian party politics. Gábor Vona, chairman of Jobbik, got rid of three of his most radical deputies: Előd Novák, István Szávay, and István Apáti. In addition, he made it clear to Mrs. Lóránd Hegedűs, wife of the anti-Semitic, extremist Reformed minister, that she shouldn’t even try to put her name forward as a member of the executive board because he has ...
Chernobyl Marathon, Budapest, 25 – 26 April
- 25 Apr 2016 2:00 AM
- community & culture
The Blinken Open Society Archives invites you to its two-day series of programs spanning from morning till late at night, commemorating the thirtieth anniversary of the nuclear power plant disaster at Chernobyl. Evening programs include film and book launches and literary readings to help discuss the events that happened thirty years ago while also touching upon issues concerning the safety of ...
Treating A War Criminal At The Budapest Jewish Hospital
- 5 Apr 2016 9:00 AM
- current affairs
Béla Biszku, who died at age 94 last week, was Hungary’s most infamous unrepentant hard-line communist and the only official of the former pre-1989 regime ever prosecuted for crimes against humanity. Biszku served in the Hungarian Workers’ Party (Magyar Dolgozók Pártja) from 1949, as well as in its successor, the Hungarian Socialist Workers’ Party (Magyar Szocialista Munkáspárt – MSZMP), ...
Five Indicted In Buda-Cash Scandal
- 5 Apr 2016 9:00 AM
- current affairs
The Capital Prosecutor’s Office has indicted five people because of suspected embezzlement, fraud and other crimes in the collapse one year ago of the Buda-Cash brokerage. If found guilty they could be sentenced to up 25 years in prison, Budapest Prosecutor General Tibor Ibolya announced.
Xpat Opinion: Béla Biszku Dies At 94
- 4 Apr 2016 9:00 AM
- current affairs
A conservative and a liberal columnist remember the Communist hardliner, who was found guilty of involvement in war crimes. Former Communist leader Béla Biszku, who received a suspended sentence for involvement in war crimes passed away last Friday.
Court Rules For Transfer Of Hungarians Arrested In Prostitution Sting To France
- 24 Mar 2016 8:00 AM
- current affairs
A Budapest court ruled for the pre-trial detention and transfer to French authorities of ten out of the 12 Hungarian nationals suspected of trafficking Hungarian women to work as prostitutes in France. The French authorities put out a European arrest warrant for the 12 men who were taken into custody in Hungary on Monday in a raid coordinated with Hungarian police, the court said in a statement.
Twelve Men Arrested On Charges Of Running Prostitution Ring In France
- 22 Mar 2016 8:00 AM
- current affairs
A Hungarian and French police investigation has led to the arrest of twelve men suspected of trafficking Hungarian women to France to work as prostitutes. In raids carried out simultaneously by Hungarian police in Csongrád county, in southern Hungary, and French law enforcement on Monday morning, cash and assets worth several hundreds of millions of forints were seized, Viktória Csiszér- Kovács, ...
Hungarian Revolution
- 17 Mar 2016 8:00 AM
- community & culture
MÚK – these three letters, standing for MÁRCIUSBAN ÚJRA KEZDJÜK (we will start again in March), kept the Kádár regime in fear until it collapsed in 1989, but has been ingrained in the Hungarian mindset so much that even these days people look forward to March 15 with contained anticipation that unrest may occur.