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The honorable death of Hungary’s top news site

index.hu

The most popular news site in Orbán’s Hungary was killed but the journalists keep on fighting

Szabolcs Panyi

26.07.2020

What happens to dead tigers that die young in suspicious circumstances in legal breeding farms? The disappear into thin air.

Konrad Szczygieł

16.07.2020

A memorial for Ján Kuciak and Martina Kušnírová in Prešov, by Petinoh, CC BY-SA 4.0, Wikimedia Commons

More than two years after shocking assassination of Ján Kuciak and his fiancée, another Slovak journalist from the same newsroom faces a death threat. Data analyst Peter Sabo found a pistol bullet in his mailbox – informs editor-in-chief of Aktuality.sk, Peter Bárdy.

VSquare

26.06.2020

If you want to make a fast buck, forget about smuggling alcohol, weapons or drugs. Choose pesticide trade. It guarantees high profits and zero risks.

Krzysztof Story

03.06.2020

From a forged letter by a high rank army official, to fake personas from a small pro-Russian website, to a Cyprus media company known for spreading pro-Kremlin content: a picture from the Poland disinformation space.

VSquare

09.05.2020

A Chinese dragon statue in Kazincbarcikai; photo: István Jávori (wikipedia, CC)

The Chinese authorities are doing everything to direct the attention of the world away from their mistakes that contributed to the spread of the pandemic – says Alicja Bachulska, an analyst of Chinese politics

Konrad Szczygieł

08.05.2020

A mysterious company from the Comoros sells worthless products as medicines in at least 10 countries. It was anonymous and inpunished, hiding behind a network of companies from Panama to Singapore. It turned out that behind it operates a Polish businessman.

VSquare

06.05.2020

Hungary tops the list of countries for most OLAF recommendations for the recovery of EU funds between 2014 and 2018. In these four years, OLAF concluded 52 probes into misuse of funds and recommended that the EU Commission to recover 3.84 percent of payments made to Hungary under the bloc’s structural and independent funds and […]

VSquare

23.04.2020