Another gesture to Putin? Ethnic Russians can become national minority in Hungary
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As we already reported, Hungarian PM Viktor Orbán is continuously strengthening and tightening Russian-Hungarian relationships. Thus, on a 2017 conference foreign presenters stated that Hungary is seen as a pro-Putin state from Washington. According to zoom.hu, the National Election Commission (NVB) gave a green light for the application of ethnic Russians for national minority status.
PM Orbán is the Trojan horse of president Putin?
To start with, Putin visited Hungary two times only last year. Furthermore, Rosatom will build the two new blocks to the Paks nuclear power plant. Besides, the Hungarian government
classified the contract concerning the expansion immediately.
Janusz Bugajsky, a senior fellow at the Centre for European Policy Analysis, said at a conference in the previous year that Hungary cooperates (with Russia) not only economically, like the Germans, but also politically. In fact, the latter is entirely unacceptable for Washington.
‘If you are seen as being pro-Putin, it can open zero doors’
– added Mike Gonzales, senior fellow of Heritage Foundation.
A gesture to Putin?
The National Election Commission of Hungary (NEC) verified a citizen initiative which would
enable Russians to gain the national minority status in Hungary.
At present, there are 13 recognised national minorities in Hungary. These are the Bulgarians, Greeks, Croats, Poles, Germans, Armenians, Roma, Romanians, Rusyns, Serbians, Slovaks, Slovenians and Ukrainians.
According to the law, if an ethnic group would like to become a national minority, they have to collect at least 1,000 signatures from those who have the right to vote on the election of mayors and local councillors.
At least a country in the EU is watching out for it’s minorities and openly willing to recognize them and listen to them, instead of muzzle them or think to try to assimilate them. The Russian government could only see this and further support the minority in the minorities favor.
Why should anyone care about what a non-european country, less a nation should concern themselves over this? What business of this is any of their concern? Does Hungary go into the U.S. and demand what happened to the Hungarian diaspora? And then insist it should stop buying Uranium from the Russians secretly???