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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 Western allies, or Russia. Direkt36 has revealed many cases, where, in the end, the government favored Vladimir Putin and his circles. It occurred, for example, that they drove a Hungarian company out of business, just to be able to make space for a Russian firm.

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How Russians got a second chance at lucrative rail deal from Hungary

People close to Orban’s advisor appear in controversial Russia-connected megaproject

The Russians are poised to benefit from international deal financed by Hungary