PM Viktor Orbán receives Russian Order of Glory and Honour

The Patriarch of Moscow awarded the First Degree of the Order of Glory and Honour to Viktor Orbán. Kirill said that thanks to the Prime Minister, Hungary is making steady progress. The Patriarch stressed that Viktor Orbán pays great attention to Christian values.

Patriarch Kirill has written a letter to PM Viktor Orbán on the occasion of his 60th birthday, Index reports. According to the Moscow Patriarch, Orbán has dedicated his entire life to Hungary and has achieved countless successes in a “not easy career”.

“It is largely thanks to your persistent efforts that Hungary is making steady and uninterrupted progress on the path of social and economic development, and is implementing an independent foreign and domestic policy. It is a good feeling to see that you pay great attention to the preservation of Christian values in society and to the strengthening of the institution of family and marriage,”

Patriarch Kirill wrote. He also expressed his gratitude to Viktor Orbán for his support to the Russian Orthodox Church’s diocese in Budapest and Hungary.

“With the participation of the Hungarian government, churches are being renovated and significant projects are being implemented, which serve the spiritual enlightenment of the people, while at the same time promoting the development of friendly relations between our peoples,” the Patriarch added.

“Taking into account your outstanding contribution to the strengthening of traditional moral values in the life of European society, and in view of your personal and significant feast day, I feel it is just and worthy that you should be awarded the First Degree of the Order of Glory and Honour,” Kirill wrote, explaining the Prime Minister’s award.

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4 Comments

Norbert says:

02/06/2023 at 13:22

Recognition! From those who … You ideally don’t want to be associated with?

Wasn’t Patriarch Kirill excluded from the EU sanctions due to the intervention of our Politicians?

#gratitude
Andrew James Chandler says:

03/06/2023 at 08:44

There are no friendly relations between the ordinary people of Hungary and the Russian oligarchs, including Kirill. More Orthodox priests have been sent here to augment local congregations which previously were left to rot. Churches in Hungary are being renovated by the state and its building companies, but this does not reflect an increase in church attendance. In reality, these continue to decline, across Europe as a whole. Medvedev has just called the UK ‘Russia’s eternal enemy’. Under the principle that my enemy’s enemy is my friend, and therefore, by extension, that my enemy’s friend is also my enemy, perhaps the Hungarian people should understand that they will not secure peaceful relations with its former friends in the West in the long term by appeasing the Russian bear in order to escape from the dense eastern forest they have been led into. Russia joined NATO in 1998, with Orbán signing the treaty in person. Is he now going to be allowed to tear it up and with it Hungary’s only guarantees of security? At the time of the Cold War and Margaret Thatcher, the UK was Russia’s ‘best friend in the West’, helping Glasnost and Gorbachev to succeed. Where is Orbán’s ‘Independent Foreign Policy’ really leading its citizens and central Europe as a whole?
Andrew James Chandler says:

03/06/2023 at 09:06

Sorry, I meant Hungary joined NATO in 1999 in my comment above, though perhaps, on reflection, it might just as well have been Russia, as Hungary, its soldiers in Kosovo excepted, has proved a Trojan horse for the Russians.
Adrian says:

04/06/2023 at 10:19

Scum bag recognized by a scum bag ! De common denominator is love for Putyin and hate for European values 🤮