János Béres, the former director-general of Hungary’s Military National Security Service and former ambassador to Lithuania, has confirmed to Átlátszó that he appears in the recently opened communist-era state security archives.

Russian propaganda seeks to cater to Hungarian patriotism over the 1956 Revolution, while Russian media outlets portray the historic event as a fascist uprising and a "color revolution".

The proposed deal could have financed railway infrastructure, geothermal energy projects, the battery industry and even the development of small modular nuclear reactors.

An emergency intervention intended to protect Hungary's only nuclear plant during extreme drought has created new issues that will requier further regular spending and work.

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.