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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.

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.

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.