Summary
HUNGARY'S Jobbik party, the shrillest among Central and Eastern Europe's far right parties, has been exposed as having received secret financial support from Russia as a quid pro quo for its anti- European Union and anti-Nato bluster. The issue of "rolling Russian gold roubles", and alleged "Iranian cash gifts" helping sustain a virulently anti-Roma and anti-semitic party that flaunts its hostility to Western liberal democracy is troubling Hungarian public opinion.
The proto-fascist party's xenophobia and strong-arm actions against what it calls "the criminal Roma" have secured it a measure of popularity - and, because of its anti-Western stance, Russian interest is not surprising.See the full content of this document
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Hungary's Far-Right Backed by 'Rolling Moscow Roubles'
Moscow's alleged influence with this extreme right-wing party has been raised in Hungary's Parliament and investigated by the National Security Commission (NSC).
Jozsef Gulyas, an independent MP in the last parliament, who brou...See the full content of this document
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