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Viktor Orbán

Pastor Gábor Iványi, one of Hungary’s best-known religious leaders, stands in his office near a photograph.

This pastor officiated Orbán’s wedding. Now he’s one of his fiercest critics.

Sacred Nation

Pastor Gábor Iványi is one of Hungary’s best-known religious leaders. He officiated over Prime Minister Viktor Orbán’s wedding and baptized two of his children. Today, he is one of Orbán’s fiercest critics.

Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor Orban speaks during a panel discussion with a white blurry background.

Orbán portrays himself as a ‘defender of Christianity.’ Critics aren’t so sure.

Sacred Nation
A man in a suit stands in front of European flags

Emergency authoritarianism? Hungary’s Orbán uses coronavirus to seize more power

COVID-19
hungarian woman reaches under a partition for money

Expert: ‘Women are going to bear the burden of Orbán’s failed economic policies.’

Orbán's Enemies
An illustration depicts Hungarian women pulling a curtain that is also a Hungarian flag revealing the symbol of women behind it.

These women are challenging Hungary’s ‘men in suits’ politics

Orbán's Enemies
Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor Orbán stands in front of several flags while speaking into several media microphones

What does Hungary’s crackdown on free media mean for the rest of the world?

Analysts say Hungary’s Viktor Orbán has created “a new kind of model about how autocrats operate.”

In this illustration, a man is seen sweeping thought bubbles underneath a rug

As Orbán rises, Hungary’s free press falls

Orbán's Enemies

Since Viktor Orbán returned to power in 2010, the media in Hungary has been consolidated by the government and friends of the government. Independent voices that remain are struggling to fund their journalism.

A large face made out of a razor wire blocks a man holding a suitcase in this illustration.

In Orbán’s Hungary, refugees are unwelcome — so are those who try to help

Orbán's Enemies

Viktor Orbán rose to power on an anti-migrant platform and has severely limited refugee resettlement in the country. But for refugees who have made it and for the NGOs helping migrants, today’s Hungary is an uncomfortable place.

Orban points his finger with red and white flags behind him.

How Viktor Orban degraded Hungary’s weak democracy

Global Politics

In the last nine years, Hungary’s Prime Minister Viktor Orbán has created a repressive and increasingly authoritarian state, operating under a pretense of democracy. In recent weeks the political situation has become volatile.

Soros

With eye on Soros, Hungary considers ban on pro-immigration groups

Global Politics

The bill, submitted to parliament late on Tuesday, is a key part of Prime Minister Viktor Orban’s anti-immigration campaign targeting U.S. financier George Soros, whose philanthropy aims to bolster liberal and open-border values in eastern Europe.