35 Years of Chernobyl: How the Communist State Power Covered Up a Nuclear Catastrophe Exactly 35 years ago today, the reactor block of the Chernobyl nuclear power plant in the Soviet Union exploded. The... 2021.04.26.
Queen Elizabeth II, Whose Great-Great-Grandmother was Hungarian, Celebrates 95th Birthday Queen of Great Britain, Elizabeth II, is now 95 years old. It is not well-known that she also has Hungarian... 2021.04.21.
“What Can We Learn From the Pandemic? Can Science Exist Without Faith?” "Large epidemics in history have often resulted in cultural-historical divides" said Cardinal Péter Erdő on Kossuth Radio's program Faith, Science,... 2021.04.19.
Fashion Designer Katalin Hampel: “Hungarians are a very creative nation” – Short Film! 35 years ago, Katalin Hampel started her career as a fashion designer in a tiny shop in downtown Budapest. Beautiful... 2021.02.27.
Details on Vaccination for Foreign Citizens in Hungary Foreign citizens who want to be vaccinated in Hungary must have a social security number (TAJ) and have their current... 2021.02.16.
Márton Fucsovics: “My Dream Is to Become a Top-10 Player One Day” “They wanted to send me home from my first training as I was even smaller than the net,” Hungary’s No.... 2021.02.12.
“Consistent border protection has helped prevent terrorist attacks” – Interview with Georg Spöttle, Security Policy Expert After the terrorist attack in Vienna, the Hungarian Anti-Terrorism Unit (TEK) immediately provided administrative assistance and worked together with the... 2020.11.15.
Why did Beethoven’s Egmont Overture Become the “Hymn of the Revolution”? The Egmont overture by Ludwig van Beethoven was played so often in the October days of 1956 that it quickly... 2020.10.23.
Villány Wine Region: A Touch of Peace Villány is the most important and well-known red wine region of Hungary. Although white wines are also offered in some... 2020.10.04.
August 23 – The Day the Holy Crown of St. Stephen Was Buried On August 23, 1849, during the 1848-49 Revolution and War of Independence, former Prime Minister Bertalan Szemere buried the Holy... 2020.08.23.
András Oplatka, Swiss-Hungarian Journalist, Founder of Friends of Hungary Foundation Passes Away András Oplatka, renowned Swiss-Hungarian journalist, historian, and translator, passed away on Wednesday morning at the age of 78 in his... 2020.05.29.
May 1st in the Past: From Labor Demonstrations to International Holiday International Workers' Day is called Labor Day, Worker’s Day, or in some countries, referred to as May Day. In Hungary,... 2020.05.01.
„Hungarian painters also have opportunities, all you need is luck and a patron” – Interview with Hungarian Painter Anna Bazsik She is young, beautiful, and talented. And not just at anything. Anna Bazsik is a painter. Her pictures create thousands of feelings,... 2020.03.11.
“I’m 1/3 Venezuelan, 1/3 Hungarian, and 1/3 Austrian – but the Hungarian part is the strongest in me” When asked about his nationality, and to which nation he belongs to, it is not an easy answer for Carlos... 2020.03.06.
Migration Crisis 2015-2020: Converging Positions? “The mistake in terms of security was not to take in those people who were standing on our doorstep. No,... 2020.02.04.
“Köhler’s 1956 story is astonishing” – Foreign Journalists Met Witness of Period during Hungary at First ‘Site’ Conference 1956, Budapest. The revolution only lasted two weeks in October in Hungary. Then the Soviet troops repressed the uprising. The... 2019.10.24.
Mayor István Tarlós: “Achievements of Budapest are facts that cannot be disputed, but that’s what the opposition does” This time last year, he was sure he would not run again as mayor of Budapest, but he eventually changed... 2019.09.20.
Hungary’s First King Celebrated in Vienna’s St. Stephen’s Cathedral On August 31st, the first king of Hungary, Stephen I. was celebrated in Vienna's St. Stephen's Cathedral (Stephansdom) and hundreds of... 2019.09.02.
‘Hundreds of East Germans came to get through the border. I only had minutes to decide whether I would stop them or not. I think I made the right choice’ August 19, 1989. He stood at the temporary border in Sopronpuszta with a gun on his side. Lieutenant Colonel Árpád... 2019.08.16.
‘Forced Foreign Ideology Became Too Much for East Germans’ – Interview on the Pan-European Picnic with Father Imre Kozma Tens of thousands of East Germans came to Hungary in the summer of 1989 because of the rumor spread in... 2019.08.14.
