Last year, a Hungarian volunteer was killed near Kharkiv. We were there when the father traveled to Ukraine again to visit his son’s grave.
During the Orbán era, ministries distinguished between "hostile" and "firendly" media when answering inquiries, and every reply had to be approved from the top. Things began to change after the election.
Over the past two decades, systemic election fraud, vote-buying for money and drugs, and blackmail has ran rampant in the impoverished countryside of Hungary. We talked to the head of the volunteer group who decided to put a stop to this practice.
The government promised twice to detain and prosecute illegal migrants, but in the last few years, they did the opposite, while border protection costs surged.
Átlátszó obtained photos of Lajos Kósa behind the wheel of a Ferrari owned by Gábor Szilágyi, and other materials connecting the Fidesz politician to the bankrupt Bászna Gabona Zrt.
Amid the technical and political uncertainties surrounding the Druzhba pipeline and diplomatic tensions around the southern alternative route, Hungary’s position can no longer be described as an active distributor, but rather as an import-dependent and exposed country.
The documentary features former and current journalists from Átlátszó, other experts, and, in our archival footage, Lőrinc Mészáros himself.
Jozef Roháč, infamous hitman of Hungary’s 1990s criminal underworld admitted responsibility for a series of unsolved bombings that influenced the 1988 elections.
János Lázár, while belligerent with Hungarian reporters, was very cordial with the Russian journalist known for interviewing pro-Putin figures in European countries.
The buyer's father is Arie Yom-Tov, a well-known real estate investor in Budapest. An amusement park is planned on possibly contaminated soil.
While Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor Orbán signals a simple lifestyle, members of his government continued to fly around the world in luxury private jets last year.
