KesterTester105 - It looks a bit like a lighthouse - but in CE Europe? UPDATED Photo: If this happens to be your residence, it would...

Somewhere in the region - But where? UPDATED with Winner! Photo: Heroes and heroine? The latter, probably not - she looks to be about to...

The Quiet Diplomat: In his own words, Tádé Alföldy speaks about 1989, the key players and the tensions raised as Hungary shuffled...

KesterTester103 - A minature statue of a gent with a well-known family name in much of central Europe - but who? UPDATED with results....

Eighteen months after the start of Russian President Vladimir Putin's 'Special Operation', in this guest post, Briton Alan Sutton...

But where? UPDATED with the Winner! Photo: the elegant outline of a magnificent Cathedral dominates the scene from the corner of a town...

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...

Anyone who happens on this bust – and I very much happened on it on Christmas Day in 2020 - is likely to be rather surprised as to who it...

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...

Researcher László Becz believes Gábor Rimner erred when he assumed that a carrier vehicle for Soviet Intercontinental Ballistic Missile...

The Rev Dr Frank Hegedűs is an intriguing fellow. An American with Hungarian ancestry, he is head priest honcho of St Margaret’s Anglican...

David Pressman, US Ambassador to Hungary, addressing guests at the Independence Day reception in Budapest on June 30th, quoted Hungary’s...

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,...

Musings on a war film that was well before it's time. (As this has nothing to do with Hungary or central Europe, I'll put it in my little...

In a quiet, off-the-beaten-track Hungarian village, some 190 km south-west of Budapest, citizens and dignitaries of Hungary, France,...

KesterTester100 - A toughie to celebrate 100 Testers - UPDATED AGAIN WITH ANOTHER TWIST! Photo: I rather like this portrait of artisan...

Kryjivka - 'shelter' in Ukrainian - & founder Yurko Nazaruk - still seem to be going strong Photo: Kryjivka, April 2009. From left to...