Igor Janke, a partner in Polish PR agency R4S has been charged by the prosecutor’s office in a giant financial scandal. Just a few weeks ago, Janke and his R4S partners opened an office in Budapest.
A ’bad boys’ band in the EU; a playing field for politicians eroding democracies; or a venue of a competition between the US and China?
The most popular news site in Orbán’s Hungary was killed but the journalists keep on fighting
With almost five hundred media outlets owned by a single pro-government foundation and hundreds of millions of euros of state advertising transferred annually to fund it, Hungary’s right-wing government has built Europe’s largest propaganda machine since the fall of the Berlin Wall. Warsaw follows in Budapest’s footsteps with a growing stream of taxpayers’ money funnelled […]
Attila Bátorfy
VSquare
Konrad Szczygieł
The Hungarian prime minister’s enigmatic spin doctor, Arpad Habony has a diplomatic passport – Atlatszo learned recently. The Ministry of Foreign Affairs and Trade confirmed that Habony got a diplomatic passport, it was issued on February 15, 2019, and it was granted to him by minister Peter Szijjártó. Written by Katalin Erdélyi. English version by […]
The Hungarian government is taking its message and narrative international: Viktor Orban’s enigmatic spin doctor, Árpád Habony, has launched an online, English-speaking media outlet, the new part of pro-government propaganda empire
Anita Komuves
Vsquare founding member Atlatszo, a non-profit investigative journalism outlet became the latest target of government propaganda in Hungary
Anita Komuves
A Hungarian oligarch who used to be close friends with prime minister Viktor Orban is selling all his businesses
Anita Komuves
