The Kremlin said Monday that the people of Hungary have made their choice and that Moscow respects the outcome of the country’s parliamentary election, in which opposition leader Péter Magyar defeated incumbent Prime Minister Viktor Orbán.
“Hungary has made its choice. We respect that choice,” Kremlin spokesman Dmitry Peskov told reporters, referring to Sunday’s vote. Peskov said Russia remains interested in maintaining good relations with Hungary, as with other European countries, and noted statements indicating a willingness to engage in dialogue.
“We look forward to continuing our very pragmatic contacts with the new Hungarian leadership,” he said. Peskov also argued that the result of the election in Hungary will not have an impact on the course of the Russia-Ukraine war, and that the EU’s decision to release €90 billion (over $105 billion) for Ukraine will be made primarily by Brussels.
Update: We won’t congratulate!
The Kremlin said Monday it will not congratulate Hungary’s prime minister-elect, Péter Magyar, on his election victory following a parliamentary vote held a day earlier.
“We don’t send congratulations to unfriendly countries. And Hungary is an unfriendly country, it supports sanctions against us,” Kremlin spokesman Dmitry Peskov said in remarks to the Life news website.
Peskov added that Moscow had been in dialogue with outgoing Prime Minister Viktor Orbán.
Devastating defeat
Hungary’s opposition Tisza Party won 69.35% of votes and 138 seats with 98.96% of ballots counted following a parliamentary vote held on Sunday, according to data from the country’s National Election Office.
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Orbán conceded defeat on the same day, saying: “We will serve our nation from the opposition,” marking the end of his 16-year tenure in office.
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Magyar said at an international press conference that he would take Putin’s call, but would tell him to stop the massacre in Ukraine because Russia is only losing with it.
Before, Péter Magyar talked about the necessity of starting a new cooperation with Putin’s Russia.
great
As Garry Kasparov states Russia’s most successful export is corruption. I would expect that Putin will now offer the new Tisza leadership the same large bribes that he gave to Orbán and his crew. Fabulous wealth in return for their cooperation and loyalty. It won’t however work this time
Garry Kasparov is a genius, Dear Larry, a stone cold genius.
He is, however, a representative of a kind of thought that has destroyed much of what once made my country great.
The notion that corruption is uniquely Russian flies in the face of what is blatantly obvious – The EU tries to orchestrate the elections of it’s member states, and, as we see here in the 2026 election, it was successful.
This is a huge defeat for the Kremlin, and, as well, China.
In both cases a Magyar win would seem to torpedo a central piece of Russian and Chinese policy, respectively.
Once again The Eu, and the Epstein Class, took down a pro-Russian European Government and, once again, Russian attempts to thwart that failed.
In my view, Russia is not nearly so menacing as Western Fearmongers make it out to be.
However, Russia will press it’s advantages on the battlefield, starting in June.
So, the fight continues.
Chemical warfare poisonings in the UK., incendiary parcel packages on cargo flights as a test run for terrorist attacks on transatlantic passenger planes, the arson of the largest shopping centre in Warsaw, sabotage on rail lines in Poland, deliberate drone overflights over NATO countries, repeated sabotage of undersea cables in the Baltic, attempted assassination of the CEO of Rheinmetall, infiltration of right-wing political parties such as the AfD in Germany, cyber attacks on infrastructure targets in Europe such as power plants and water treatment plants, the continuous building of a war economy – The list of Russian attacks on Europe is pratically endless. Putin’s Russia is an existential threat to Europe.
Yes, Dear Larry – the items on this list are correct.
What is not correct is that you do not list our attacks of them, or our attempts to destroy them.
Any analysis, of any situation, cannot lead to good policy formulation, if it is one-sided.
Let’s stop being one-sided.
Mouton look after yourself. Look after your family. Enjoy life. I visited the Soviet Union in 1987. I saw a lot. I drove a car with a university friend from Paris to St.Petersberg and back. I have a lot of souvenirs from that trip and fond memories. Billy Joel was on television playing in Russia at the time. I visited Lenin’s tomb. I swam in the Dnieper river in Kyiv and we joked that we were taking a chance with radiation from Chernobyl. I saw them washing the buildings in Kyiv at that time and I saw people with radiation detectors in the markets in Russia. I met with Russian dissidents in Moscow and attended an anti-war (Afghan) concert outside of the city. Speeches were made including by veterans in favour of the the army and government. The biggest impression I had of visiting Russia was the incredibly huge effect of the Second World War with statues everywhere. The war cemetary in Leningrad made you feel the incredible loss. The Moscow metro was first rate. I learned to enjoy vodka. I got lost in the Hermitage at least twice.
That post was a short abbreviation of what I have seen. What an experience. No shit. We met a guy from Berlin who said when you get to Berlin call my girlfriend and she will give you the keys for my apartment. Before we get there coming from the east I try to take a short cut in Berlin and go through concrete barriers leading to Checkpoint Charlie. The guards say sorry you have to take the long way around. The flow of traffic into West Berlin was probably the biggest in history at a border crossing. There were at least 15 lanes. I get to the apartment and I am right on the wall. I am three floors up and I can see two walls with the sand track in between. What a coincidence that the German I made friends with lived there.
Thank you for this fantastic comment, Dear Larry!
Though I disliked the Soviet Union, and feared it, I love Russia and Russian culture.
I grew up with my mama’s Tchaikovsky and Rachmaninoff records; studied endless Russian chess strategies, and, at age 12, began to read Doestoevsky, which changed me forever.
After my time in the army, I found a dear friend, who, Russian, led me deeper into Russian culture, I studying the language, the result being that I became extremely fond of Russian poetry and, above all, Russian Landscape painters – starting with Ivan Shishkin.
My dear Russian friend lost 2 of his grandparents, before he was born, in the Siege of Leningrad. As a child my friend played at his daddy’s dacha, near Karelia, where the Germans had left a lot of equipment. My Russian’s friend’s daddy lost his leg in the war, and wore a wooden pegleg until he came over here, around 2000, at which point he exchanged his ancient prosthetic for something metal and modern.
I will take your advice, Dear Larry and look after myself and my family. Life has it’s share of crap, but, all in all, is an amazing experience – particularly the beauties of nature and art, and the diversity of Humanity.
God bless and be well!
Yes, Dear Larry, I share the German connections with you, as well.
One of my mentors was from Essen, and a veteran of the war, at the end, in The Hitler Youth.
I lived in Hesse-Kassel, deep in the boonies, and enjoyed it immensely, although that time, so long ago, was a very different Germany than today.
Yes, the Cold war Berlin was an opportunity to get into mischief, though, for me, as a rural-oriented man, I spent most of my time in Germany with my adopted family and the young German ladies.
My German was once near dang near fluent, though, in recent years I have been pulling it out of the mothballs by following the AFD, at Compact at YouTube, every day.
Learning Hungarian has been my hardest language challenge, far beyond German and the romance languages I have studied, but, I am on the verge of being passable at it – so long as Magyarul irni nem kell!