The Future of Eastern Europe: A Discussion with Zsuzsanna Szelényi
New Books in World Affairs
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The Importance of the Russian Relationship in Hungary
The Russian relationship become important for the Hungarian government or bans government because of, because of business. Orban also wants to use the Russian and the Chinese relationship to maneuver to create some maneuvering space for him vis a vis the West. He basically followed or try to follow what he thought is the German modal with Russians. With the war, we can see big differences because of course German company has strong interest but Germany big and strong. So now, orban is not flexible any longer, but he still believes that he can extract some benefit from this whole war will probably end.
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