Eight combat vehicles have been transported back from Afghanistan as the first step of the Hungarian withdrawal from the country – reported the Hungarian news agency MTI. Homecoming: Hungarian combat vehicles are boarding the Russian made AN 124-100 carrier The Hungarian Provincial Reconstruction Team (HUN PRT) is to finish the […]
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According to a government resolution the Minister of National Development has to give USD 15 million to a Friends of Hungary Foundation as founding capital. Besides, the ministry provides it with donation on yearly bases. The mission is the new US based foundation is to strengthen the national identity and […]
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 […]
After some debate and hesitation a new park in Budapest got its name after Kemal Atatürk, the Turkish statesman of the 20th century. The decision was not easy, the local council had changed its mind more times considering the diplomatic tense Between Hungary and Armenia. How does Armenia come into […]
The story began in 2004 in Budapest when Azerbaijani national Ramil Sahib Safarov brutally killed his roommate Armenian Gurgen Margaryan with an axe. Both the murderer and the victim were military students participating in a NATO organized language course in the Hungarian capital. Safarov was sentenced of life imprisonment in […]