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During this meeting, Putin promised Russia will return artifacts looted during World War II to Hungary. [16] In 2006, Russia passed a law allowing the return of said stolen artifacts to Hungary. [18] In the same year, 2006, Vladimir Putin and Sergey Lavrov visited Hungary. Putin paid his respects at a memorial of the 1956 uprising, said that ...
In March 2023, Russia announced that people from unfriendly countries will be subject to a "voluntary" exit tax of up to 10 percent to be paid into the Russian federal budget, on the sale of shares in Russian companies. [24] This was expanded in July 2023 so that companies leaving Russia must sell their assets to Russian buyers at a 50% discount.
Five Republican senators issued a joint statement Friday questioning Hungary’s ties to Russia, as the nation tightens relations with China and its war on Ukraine nears the three-year mark.
The U.S. envoy to Budapest sharply criticised the Hungarian government on Tuesday for "disregarding" the interests of its NATO allies and strengthening ties with Russia at a time when its allies ...
Gazprom is the largest company in Russia. Russia's vast geography is an important determinant of its economic activity, with some sources estimating that Russia contains over 30 percent of the world's natural resources. [2] [3] [4] The World Bank estimates the total value of Russia's natural resources at US$75 trillion.
Hungary is putting European security at risk, European Commission President Ursula von der Leyen said on Wednesday in an unusually blunt speech blasting Budapest’s relationship with Russia and ...
The United States is concerned about Hungary's relationship with Russia, and finds Prime Minister Viktor Orban's decision to meet with Russian President Vladimir Putin "troubling", the U.S ...
As with any country, Hungarian security attitudes are shaped largely by history and geography. For Hungary, this is a history of more than 400 years of domination by great powers—the Ottomans, the Habsburg dynasty, the Germans during World War II, and the Soviets during the Cold War—and a geography of regional instability and separation from Hungarian minorities living in neighboring ...