corruption

Long years in jail and terabytes of scandals: The definite end of Kočner’s era

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Verdict on Slovak businessman Marian Kocner in Pezinok
Marian Kocner is seen in the courtroom for the verdict in the case of the murders of investigative journalist Jan Kuciak and his fiancee Martina Kusnirova, in Pezinok, Slovakia September 3, 2020. Source: RADOVAN STOKLASA / Reuters / Forum

The results of a police investigation into the murder of investigative journalist Ján Kuciak have left powerful figures in Slovakia extremely jumpy.

Lukáš Diko Tomáš Madleňák

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The Life of Ján Kuciak and a Brief History of Slovakia

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The house of Ján Kuciak and Martina Kušnírová
The house of Ján Kuciak and Martina Kušnírová on Brezova street in Veľká Mača . On the gate is the inscription "Love is stronger than evil". Photo taken March 16, 2018 by Miro.kern/Wikimedia Commons, CC BY-SA 4.0

The murder of Ján Kuciak and his fiancée rocked Slovakia like nothing else had in the previous 30 years. Their deaths literally changed the country.

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The great escape of ‘KGBéla’, Hungarian MEP accused of spying for Russia

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Photo Wojciech Grzedziński

In 2014 Béla Kovács, a notoriously russophile Hungarian member of the European Parliament, dubbed as KGBéla even by his own far-right comrades, broke the law and made illegal contacts with Russian intelligence officers. The story of Kovács is the most accurate depiction of the complicated nature of Russian influence in Hungary. And it’s not that easy to understand what happened to him and today’s political landscape of Hungary.

Szabolcs Panyi

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