Our peaceful life in Nyirbator, Hungary, a picturesque farming community was abruptly disrupted into chaos with the invasion of Russians on October 23rd, 1956. My parents who survived World War II ...

After the revolutions of 1848 swept the Continent, Hungarian Patriot Lajos Kossuth said that his countrymen were the “reddest republicans in Europe.” Today, seven years after Russian tanks crushed the ...

Hungarian water polo player Ervin Zador is covered in blood in the 1956 match against the Soviet Union. Few sporting encounters however have been as loaded with political symbolism as Hungary's water ...

John Wesley Reid researches free speech and religious freedom as a member of the Budapest Fellowship Program at The Hungary Foundation. Reid previously was editor-in-chief at Liberty University’s ...

BUDAPEST, Hungary (AP) — Hungary’s parliament has overwhelmingly approved a modified plan to restrict the display of Nazi and communist symbols such as the swastika and red star. Similar rules were ...

The 2025 Conservative Political Action Conference in Hungary begins in Budapest on Thursday. While organizers claim it will celebrate the “Age of Patriots,” the conference’s main effect will be to ...

Janos Kadar, the Communist leader of Hungary, responded to the Revolution of 1956 with a softer kind of regime that came to be known as “goulash Communism.” Almost seven decades later, his successor, ...

BUDAPEST (Reuters) - Steps away from Budapest's ornate Parliament building, hidden in a basement studio on a leafy street, art dealer Peter Pinter was holding the third of his hugely successful ...

BUDAPEST (Reuters) - A former senior Communist Party official went on trial in Hungary on Tuesday charged with war crimes over the suppression of the 1956 anti-Soviet uprising, in a landmark case that ...

Fresh off a meeting planned in secret with Vladimir Putin in Moscow, Hungary’s Prime Minister Viktor Orban had a surprise meeting with Xi Jinping in Beijing on Monday. A Chinese readout of the meeting ...

Since not even all Communist leaders are alike, the Kremlin tries to put their differences to work. The result is something like an old-fashioned cuckoo clock with a smiling face emerging to indicate ...