Romanian authorities last week detained Moldovan citizen Iurie Manic at the Moldova–Romania border. He is accused by French prosecutors of being one of the leaders of a series of vandalism actions in Paris directed by Russia. The case was first reported by Ziarul de Iaşi.

An average Romanian citizen accused of swindling a businessman out of 1.1 million euros, whose case is being handled by DIICOT, the anti-organized-crime prosecutor's office, would likely spend the standard thirty days of pretrial detention in a Bucharest holding cell before he could even calculate how many tenths of a percent are left on his Swiss bank account. Călin Georgescu is not an average Ro

Democracy has its own peculiar form of justice: slow, clumsy, sometimes maddeningly delayed, but it arrives in the end - and now Donald Trump's Middle East war has brought the bill. According to a four-day Reuters/Ipsos poll that closed on Sunday, the president's approval rating has fallen to 32 percent, the lowest of his entire political career. Esteemed American public opinion has come to this r

In Romania, the health cordon works like hospital disinfection: on paper it's everywhere, in practice who knows. On Monday evening, in the Antena 3 studio, Sorin Grindeanu, the leader of the Social Democratic Party (PSD), said out loud what an entire country had already suspected but no one had heard so plainly before: he does not rule out a PSD–AUR government. "I wouldn't rule out this option. Of

On Monday in New York, after his meeting with Mayor Zohran Mamdani, Donald Trump explained why he will no longer let reporters from CNN, MS NOW and Politico into the White House. The justification was neither legal nor political, but downright liturgical: "If they're going to write fake news, I feel that's my obligation to not let them back into a very special house." The White House, he added, is

In parliament today, Bence Rétvári tried to put Péter Magyar on the spot by claiming that MOL is negotiating with Ukraine's Naftogaz to build a fuel storage facility near the Hungarian–Ukrainian border. Magyar's response was not to say let's look at what the Ukrainians proposed, how much it would cost, who would pay for it, and what benefit Hungary would get from it. No. He got outraged, recounted

On Monday evening, Călin Georgescu, the winner of the first round of Romania's 2024 presidential election that was manipulated by Russia, was taken into custody for 24 hours. DIICOT (the Directorate for Investigating Organized Crime and Terrorism) will request a thirty-day pretrial detention for him — this time, however, not in connection with the case concerning attacks on the constitutional orde

Putin's party has secured a comfortable majority in the Russian Duma, though the word "comfortable" seems almost modest here: with more than 95 percent of the votes counted, United Russia stood at 57.83 percent, which is expected to translate into 355 of the 450 parliamentary seats. That is already a constitutional majority. The election commission reported a turnout of 59.3 percent, and Putin had

If we thought this weekend would pass quietly, without another RMDSZ betrayal coming to light — not merely a betrayal of Hungarian interests but their outright trampling for the sake of selfish profit — then along came Ödön Szabó, who essentially said: hold my holy water. Because, bless my soul, the RMDSZ bigwigs prayed at the mass held in the newly renovated church named after Saint Ladislaus as

Of the three state elections held in September, the Alternative for Germany (AfD) won two. In Saxony-Anhalt it took 43.8 percent of the vote, and in Mecklenburg-Vorpommern 38.2 percent. In Berlin, however, the Left party finished first. Chancellor Friedrich Merz's party, the CDU, lost in all three elections, and in Mecklenburg-Vorpommern it failed to enter parliament at all.

Anyone reminded by this news of the Molotov-Ribbentrop Pact is drawing an understandable historical parallel. Today's situation is different, but the question is familiar: what happens to Europe if a German political force starts negotiating with Moscow while Russia is waging war on the continent?

Romanian President Nicușor Dan signed the decree on Monday officially nominating Siegfried Mureșan for prime minister. The president had already announced his decision on Thursday; the decree issued now has also been published in the Official Gazette.

Labeling Russian attacks as "hybrid" can become a political Xanax, argues Cristian Soare on DefenseRomania, citing a Polish analysis. According to the author, European governments acknowledge the Russian threat, but consistently treat drone incidents and sabotage against rail and energy infrastructure as separate national matters. This way, Moscow only ever has to reckon with the response of the i

Ramzan Kadyrov has once again won the Chechen leadership election: according to data from the Russian electoral commission, he received 99.85 percent of the vote. There were even rival candidates, believe it or not — two of them. Both received exactly 0.05 percent. One was put forward by one Russian parliamentary party, the other by a different Russian parliamentary party, just so the election wou

We could pick any example, whichever comes up first, but let's take this one, because today this came up first.

The poor wretch strayed into a birch grove. Cain in the country. Cain in Russia.

The Ditró story illustrates how the party-adjacent research circle, funded from Hungarian and Romanian public money, actually works: it speaks up on every topic of the Transylvanian Hungarian public sphere, yet is never held accountable – and why it is no accident that it treats its own people as a “majority”, and makes other people's work invisible while feeding on it, all of this, on top of everything, without any impact whatsoever.

As we reported earlier, András Dezső covered a bizarre espionage case involving a Hungarian aspiring spy backed by the Russians who failed the Hungarian authorities’ national security vetting. We introduce two individuals also involved in the case.

This document sets out to give as complete a picture as possible of the background to the eviction proceedings initiated against the Premonstratensian (Norbertine) Abbey of Oradea / Nagyvárad. The following is based on documents, court case files and interviews.

Mark my words. Orbán’s downfall accelerates the decline of Trump and Putler. Not because the Hungarian traitorous mafioso ever had any real international, economic or military weight, but because symbolically it still matters: his supposedly unshakable feudal domain has collapsed. Trump will lose the midterm elections on November 5, which means he will no longer be able to cause major damage even if he does not keel over, because: