We looked into the contracts signed by the Hungarian government with “Mr. Russia”
Direkt36 looked into the content of consultancy contracts that the Hungarian government signed last year with Klaus Mangold, an influential German businessman d...
Inside Viktor Orbán’s Response to the War in Ukraine
Viktor Orbán came home from his talks with Vladimir Putin saying that he did not expect war. When it did break out, there was some wavering on the continuation...
Sinking ground on the Paks II nuclear power plant site could further delay the project
The Hungarian authority assessing the plans of Russian Rosatom will have to make a decision whether safe construction above a fault line which is vulnerable to ...
Inside the opposition’s crushing defeat against Viktor Orbán
The chaos was even bigger inside the campaign than it looked from the outside. Direkt36 has investigated how the opposition, which led in the polls last fall, l...
Inside Orbán’s Fidesz party preparing for Hungary’s parliamentary election
For some time now, all government proposals land on PM Orbán's desk with green, yellow, or red post-its. People with inside knowledge about the election strate...
Spies, business deals and criminals. How Orbán favors Russian interests instead of Western ones
In the past 12 years, Prime Minister Viktor Orbán’s government has gotten into a situation many times, when they had to decide between the interests of Weste...
Inside the internal government conflict over the permit for the controversial Paks 2 nuclear power plant
Direkt36 learned that the construction permit for the Paks 2 nuclear power plant caused a conflict between two government members, László Palkovics and János...
Another Pegasus target with political ties: a lawyer who oversees elections and worked for opposition party Jobbik
László Vértesy was targeted in the fall of 2018 when he was still the owner and director of an institute that had helped opposition party Jobbik in the last ...
Former Fidesz politician signs lucrative property rental contract with Russians building Paks 2
The license permit for the Paks 2 power plant expansion is still delayed but project implementer Rosatom continues to publish new related tenders. According to ...
Inside the conflicts surrounding the construction of Hungary’s new nuclear plant
The state authority overseeing the Paks expansion has serious concerns about the Russian construction company’s plans, which are to be approved within a few d...