Jeruzalem, Slovenia - a hamlet of history
An April Fool's Day discovery from 2005 Photo: The view from Jeruzalem - looking south. The nearby church is in the hamlet of Svetinje,...
Observations from Hungary and Central Europe
An April Fool's Day discovery from 2005 Photo: The view from Jeruzalem - looking south. The nearby church is in the hamlet of Svetinje,...
A two-classroom school run by a charity in Budapest VIII helps children, displaced from their homes in war-ravaged Ukraine, make up their...
Vlado Kreslin, musician, poet and former radio commentator, regarded by many in his native Slovenia as a national icon, will turn 70 on...
In their own words: Mr Pulai, a political scientist/pollster, argues results of next June's European Parliamentary elections could be...
Artists are free, right? Free to paint reality as they see it. Well, an exhibition now on in Budapest puts the mockers on that idea. Art...
First, State secretary Bence Rétvári gave the good news (well, what else?) in early August: More than 18,800 young people applied to take...
The kids and their kids are coming to stay - help, I've got to clean the place up! And among the many layers of journalistic detritus on...
Gerard Gorman, in truth, was much more into Bustards et al than ursus arctos, at least when this photo was taken, up in the Buda Hills...
Almost half of government-party voters see Ukraine as a threat, or very significant threat to Hungary, according to a poll by...
I happened upon a collection of Business Europa magazines earlier today, a long-defunct publication which did its limited best to report...
Yorkshire-born Helen Womack spent three decades in Russia working as a reporter for English-language publications. In this guest post,...
In a quiet, off-the-beaten-track Hungarian village, some 190 km south-west of Budapest, citizens and dignitaries of Hungary, France,...
Kryjivka - 'shelter' in Ukrainian - & founder Yurko Nazaruk - still seem to be going strong Photo: Kryjivka, April 2009. From left to...
Exhibition opens on Tuesday, 18th April at 18.00 hrs - at the 3 7 Gallery, Budapest 1114, Bartók Béla út 37 (4 mins from Móricz Zsigmond...
In their own words: Ágoston Mráz, Director of the pro-government Nézőpont Institute, spoke to the Hungarian International Press...
Photo: Not writing papers about it, not debating policy, but doing it - teaching Roma students. That's former MP Tibor Derdák (right),...
Robert 'Gene' Brown and Marylin Ball-Brown are two 'ordinary' Americans who retired to Hungary hoping to spend the rest of their lives...
In Their own Words: Former Hungarian Foreign Minister Péter Balázs (along with György Surányi, former governor of Hungary's central...
Left-leaning political think tank Policy Solutions, in co-operation with the Friedrich Ebert Stiftung Budapest, launched the latest...
A wintry scene from the Hungarian capital, almost certainly taken in 1992-93. Photo: Judging from the struggle this little mite has to...