Hungary’s Orbán is the only EU leader Putin sent a New Year greeting
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“Vladimir Putin sent out Christmas and New Year wishes to foreign heads of state and government”, kremlin.ru wrote today. The only EU leader who made it to the greetings list was the Hungarian prime minister, Viktor Orbán, known for his differing opinion regarding the EU sanctions against Russia and the ongoing war in Ukraine. That is the issue that the Russian state-owned domestic news agency, Ria Novosti dissected in their article analysing the reasons why Orbán and the Hungarians were not anti-Russian.
According to kremlin.ru, “Vladimir Putin sent Christmas and New Year greetings to Prime Minister of Hungary Viktor Orbán, stressing that, despite the complicated international environment, relations between the countries continue to move in a positive direction. The President of Russia also affirmed his intention to continue working together on current bilateral issues”, the President’s official website said.
Based on RTL Klub, a Hungarian commercial TV channel, the following heads and prime ministers of states received a greeting from Putin: Abkhazia, Armenia, Azerbaijan, Belarus, Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, Tajikistan, Turkmenistan, Uzbekistan, South Ossetia, Bolivia, Brazil, Venezuela, Vietnam, India, China, Cuba, China, Nicaragua, Serbia, Syria, and Turkey. Orbán was the only EU leader Putin wished a happy new year. Among the NATO member countries, only Orbán and Erdogan (Turkey) made it to Putin’s holiday greetings list.
Vladimir Putin also sent congratulatory messages to former heads of foreign states and governments, in particular, Silvio Berlusconi, Robert Kocharyan, Nursultan Nazarbayev, Serzh Sargsyan and Gerhard Schröder, the website reported.
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Lovely to hear.
The rest of Europe’s country leaders are corrupt covards that goes along with the narrative.
Mockery.
What came out the mouth of Victor Orban in his 1989 speech, to the citizens of Hungary – the FUTURE – Appalling. We are living with dealing with to-day all the CONSEQUENCES of his Orbans actions, paid by us, through Victor Orban his political on-going movement and alignment to a DICTATORSHIP of Hungary – Appalling.
1989 – the speech – Mockery/Hypocritical – to the Hungary we are living in, descending deeper into a “blackening hole” – through Victor Orban/Fidesz.
Orban has turned Hungary into a Russian satellite masquerading as an EU member. Once again Hungary has bet on the wrong horse as it has done throughout history. Orban will make Hungary pay dearly for his corruption and his fealty to Moscow. It’s already costing Hungary billions in lost EU funds.