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Peter Marki-Zay, leader of United For Hungary, the six-party opposition coalition, speaks during the final electoral rally in Budapest, Hungary, Saturday, April 2, 2022, ahead of Sunday's election. Hungary's nationalist prime minister, Viktor Orban, seeks a fourth straight term in office, a coalition of opposition parties are framing the Sunday election as a referendum on Hungary's future in the West. (AP Photo/Petr David Josek)

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Opposition vows end to Orban's autocratic rule in Hungary
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Sat,04/02/22-2:31PM , 363 Reads
BUDAPEST, Hungary (AP) — A diverse coalition of opposition parties made their final appeal to Hungarian voters on Saturday ahead of the country's fiercely fought election that will decide whether nationalist Prime Minister Viktor Orban continues his autocratic rule for a fourth consecutive term.
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A volunteer ballot counter holds her glasses to see a presentation in Budapest, Hungary, Thursday, March 24, 2022. A grassroots civic initiative in Hungary has recruited more than 20,000 volunteer ballot counters to ensure a fair tally in upcoming elections. In the contest on April 3, Prime Minister Viktor Orban will seek his fourth consecutive term in what polls suggest will be the closest election since he came to power in 2010.(AP Photo/Anna Szilagyi)

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Volunteer vote-counters push for Hungary election integrity
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Tue,03/29/22-1:09AM , 420 Reads
BUDAPEST, Hungary (AP) — A grassroots civic initiative in Hungary, concerned over the integrity of an upcoming general election, has recruited more than 20,000 ballot counters to observe the high-stakes contest in which nationalist Prime Minister Viktor Orban will seek a fourth consecutive term.
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Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor Orban, right, and Russian President Vladimir Putin hold a joint press conference following their talks at the PM's office in the Castle of Buda in Budapest, Hungary, Wednesday, Oct. 30, 2019. Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor Orban has sought to assert Hungary’s neutrality in the war in Ukraine, even as his allies in the European Union and NATO move to assist the embattled country. Widely seen as Russian President Vladimir Putin’s closest ally in the EU, Orban has refused to supply Ukraine with military aid — the only one of Ukraine’s EU neighbors to take that stance. (Zoltan Mathe/MTI via AP, File)

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Hungary's Orban criticized for 'neutrality' in Ukraine war
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Sat,03/26/22-9:39AM , 710 Reads
BUDAPEST, Hungary (AP) — Widely seen as Russian President Vladimir Putin's closest ally in the European Union, Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor Orban has sought to assert Hungary's neutrality in the war in Ukraine, even as his
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A Ukrainian circus artist who fled the war in Ukraine trains in a circus practice facility in Budapest, Hungary, Tuesday, March 22, 2022. Around 100 Ukrainian circus art students aged 5-20, with their adult chaperones, escaped the embattled cities of Kharkiv and Kyiv amid Russian bombings. In neighboring Hungary, fellow circus devotees extended help and solidarity, taking them in and allowing them to continue training in the safety of the capital, Budapest. (AP Photo/Anna Szilagyi)

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Circus solidarity: Ukrainian performers find home in Hungary
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Thu,03/24/22-5:31AM , 479 Reads
BUDAPEST, Hungary (AP) — Swinging on trapezes, juggling rings or twirling on aerial silks, young Ukrainians with a passion for the circus who were uprooted by Russia's war are now training in Hungary.
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