Orbán’s nominee for president: anti-gender crusader Katalin Novák
Hungarian PM Viktor Orbán announced Fidesz will put forward Katalin Novák for president. The step ensures Orbán’s party will have an ally in the office even if they lose the general elections coming up in spring. Former minister for families Novák is the face of the Hungarian government’s anti-gender campaign and interacted with various Russian individuals believed to be close to intelligence operations.
Márton Sarkadi Nagy
Black Cube-style operation used in smear campaign against NGOs
The video interviews published by pro-government Hungarian newspaper aimed at discrediting foreign correspondents and NGOs critical of the government were made under suspicious circumstances.
Gabriella Horn
Brothers in arms
Paramilitary organizations from Poland and Slovakia are tightening their partnership. Members of the Slovak Recruits and Strzelec have been training together on shooting ranges and exchanging weapons. Both groups are linked to far-right and pro-Russian movements.
Tomáš Madleňák
Konrad Szczygieł
Nazism under a red and white flag
On 11th of November nationalists marched through the capital of Poland. European extremists gather every year in Warsaw to be seen and to count their ranks. Independence March is not a patriotic picnic. It is a show of force, a right-wing, radical, and constantly growing force.
See Minsk and die. How Belarusian firms smuggle refugees
Companies connected with the Alexander Lukashenko regime are profiting from smuggling migrants from the Middle East.
The buy-back of Greater Hungary
The Hungarian government has donated two state-owned companies and a total of HUF 15 billion in state assets to the Foundation for Preserving Built Heritage in Central Europe. The companies and their foreign subsidiaries have accumulated a total of 16 properties in the neighbouring countries.
Valuable buildings in two countries bought by Hungarian-owned company
THWARTED. What is really going on on the border between Belarus and Poland
Our investigation reveals locations of transit nodes used by Belarusians to smuggle migrants through the border and their connection to Belarusian military infrastructure.
Julia Dauksza