Thirty-six years after the fall of Communism, Hungary has opened a searchable database containing the names of tens of thousands of people registered by the former regime's secret police.

Parents, former students and teachers have described an atmosphere of fear, humiliation and excessive workloads at the Hungarian National Ballet Institute, a fee-paying ballet school operated by the Hungarian State Opera.

Átlátszó followed the election from Senta (Zenta), a predominantly Hungarian town in northern Serbia, where artist and longtime anti-government activist Tibor Lázár was elected to parliament on the students’ list.

The Orbán government gave billions of forints to the companies of Gyula Balásy to build and operate military-themed adventure parks, which have fallen to disrepair in under a year.

Ágnes Forgács, a former employee of the pro-government tabloid Ripost spoke of surveillance of political opponents in an interview with Atlatszo in May. She is now a suspect in the case she helped expose.

The Ministry of Justice, acting as the office's legal successor, has agreed to pay HUF 3.8 million in damages and cover legal expenses.