Condoms and dummies caused problems in the Hungarian and Slovak parts of the Druzhba oilpipeline – reported the Hungarian News Agency MTI. It is unclear how the unusual pollution got into the pipeline but there must have been a large quantitiy of it because the rubber items made the instruments […]
Monthly Archives: October 2012
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In August a Slovak millionaire woman killed four people in a road accident, and now a new case has provoked public outcry in Hungary. On 11 October four Hummer SUV crossed the Hungarian – Romanian border. They belonged to an Austrian Hummer community having been organized on the internet and […]
After Hollywood director Oliver Stone script writer Joe Eszterhas gave a lesson in a filmmaking „master course” being held in Budapest. As a part of the course, Paul Verhoeven’ Basic Instinct was on, and after the screening the participants had the chance to discuss it with Joe Eszterhas, the writer […]
According to the official data a record number 19,200 runners entered the 2012 Spar Marathon in Budapest, which took place on 7 October. Just after the start, the rummer in Andrássy street (Photo: MTI) This year the fastest runner was Gábor Józsa (2h 21m 6s), while among the women Tímea […]
Some days ago I wrote about the debate over a Budapest park which got its name after the Turkish statesmen Mustafa Kemal Atatürk. Now, the disagreement can been seen by anybody: the statue of Atatürk, which stands in the park, has been covered with red paint. The police are investigating […]
Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor Orbán and his Slovak counterpart Robert Fico signed an agreement on Tuesday about building a new bridge between the two countries over the river Danube. The bridge will have been built by 2016 or 2017 and as far as the costs are concerned they will go […]