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Beginning of the End I: the Demonstrators

Beginning of the End II: The Leaders

Beginning of the End III: the Cops

Beginning of the End IV: Signs and Symbols

Scenes from the Great Migration 1

Scenes from the Great Migration 2

Scenes from the Great Migration 3

Scenes from the Great Migration 4

And So They Left

The Curtain Falls Again

The Fields Are Speaking Pashto

Making Politics of Migration: the CÖF Signs

First Peace March

Sixth Peace March

Seventh Peace March

Hungarian Two-Tailed Dog Party Peace March

Jobbik May Day Celebration

The German Occupation Memorial

Toppling the Orbán Statue

Media Independence Demonstration

Homelessness in the 11th District of Budapest

2007 and 2008 Budapest Pride Parades

2013 Budapest Pride Parade

Lex CEU Demonstrations

April 2018 Opposition Demonstration

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Parties

  • Fidesz
  • Christian Democratic People’s Party
  • Movement for a Better Hungary (Jobbik)

Government

  • Prime Ministry
  • Prime Ministerial Cabinet Office
  • National Assembly
  • —National Assembly Election Procedure
  • —2018 National Assembly Election
  • —2014 National Assembly Election
  • —2010 National Assembly Election
  • Constitutional Court
  • Curia
  • President
  • Local Government

Government Institutions

  • National Bank of Hungary
  • Hungarian Export-Import Bank
  • Budget Council
  • Nat’l Media and Infocommunication Authority
  • Media Services and Support Trust Fund (MTVA)
  • National Judicial Office
  • Counter Terrorism Center

Pro-Government Organizations

  • Civil Cooperation Forum (CÖF)
  • —Peace March Demonstrations
  • Central European Press and Media Foundation

Laws

  • Fundamental Law
  • —Amendments to the Fundamental Law
  • —European Union Criticism
  • —Council of Europe Criticism
  • Media Laws
  • Land Law
  • Communist-Era Domestic Intelligence Files
  • Law on National Higher Education (Lex CEU)
  • The NGO Law
  • Amendments on Outdoor Political Advertising
  • STOP Soros Law

Economic Policy

  • Eastern Opening
  • —Eastern Opening: China
  • —Eastern Opening: Russia
  • —Eastern Opening: Azerbaijan
  • Government Debt
  • Household Foreign-Currency Debt
  • Public Utility Fee Cuts
  • State Monopoly on the Retail Sale of Tobacco
  • Nationalization of Private Pension Funds
  • European Union Excessive-Deficit Procedure
  • Sunday Shop Closing
  • Hungarian Investment Immigration Program

Oligarchs

  • Lőrinc Mészáros
  • Andy Vajna
  • Árpád Habony
  • István Garancsi
  • István Tiborcz
  • Gábor Széles
  • Lajos Simicska

Journalists

  • Zsolt Bayer
  • András Bencsik

Other

  • Declaration of National Cooperation
  • “Let’s Stop Brussels!” National Consultation
  • National Consultation on the “Soros Plan”
  • Orbán Government and EEA-Norway Grants
  • Orbán Government Stadium Construction
  • Orbán Government Homeless Policy
  • Sargentini Report
  • New Hungarian Guard

Notable Quotes

  • Prime Minister Viktor Orbán
  • National Assembly Speaker László Kövér

History

  • Principality of Hungary . . . . . . . . . . . . . 896–1000
  • Medieval Kingdom of Hungary . . . . . . 1000–1526
  • Habsburg Kingdom of Hungary . . . . . .1526–1867
  • —Ottoman Hungary
  • —Principality of Transylvania
  • Austro-Hungarian Monarchy . . . . . . . .1867–1918
  • First Hungarian Republic . . . . . . . . . . . 1918–1919
  • Hungarian Soviet Republic . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1919
  • Horthy Regency . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .1920–1944
  • Arrow Cross Government . . . . . . . . . . .1944–1945
  • Provisional National Government . . . . . . . . . .1945
  • Second Hungarian Republic . . . . . . . . 1946–1949
  • Hungarian People’s Republic I . . . . . . 1949–1956
  • —1956 Hungarian Revolution
  • Hungarian People’s Republic II . . . . . 1956–1989
  • Third Hungarian Republic . . . . . . . . . .1989–2010

Photo Galleries

  • Beginning of the End I: the Demonstrators
  • Beginning of the End II: The Leaders
  • Beginning of the End III: the Cops
  • Beginning of the End IV: Signs and Symbols
  • Scenes from the Great Migration 1
  • Scenes from the Great Migration 2
  • Scenes from the Great Migration 3
  • Scenes from the Great Migration 4
  • And So They Left
  • The Curtain Falls Again
  • The Fields Are Speaking Pashto
  • Making Politics of Migration: the CÖF Signs
  • First Peace March
  • Sixth Peace March
  • Seventh Peace March
  • Hungarian Two-Tailed Dog Party Peace March
  • Jobbik May Day Celebration
  • The German Occupation Memorial
  • Toppling the Orbán Statue
  • Media Independence Demonstration
  • Homelessness in the 11th District of Budapest
  • 2007 and 2008 Budapest Pride Parades
  • 2013 Budapest Pride Parade
  • Lex CEU Demonstrations
  • April 2018 Opposition Demonstration

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