Parliamentary elections will be held in #Hungary in April, in which #Orban is polling poorly, so a semi-official delegation of #Russia ‘siloviki’, ‘advisers’ and ‘political technologists’ has been sent to Budapest to avert the crisis using Russian methods – i.e. fraud, propaganda, intimidation and possibly special measures (state of emergency, etc.)
https://vsquare.org/goulash-kremlins-vote-meddling-team-in-budapest-slovakias-shady-help-for-arms-group-ipo/
The Russians did exactly the same thing in 2013 and 2014 when Putin’s order to Yanukovych that Ukraine join the Russian Customs Union instead of the EU caused a huge and fully justified wave of public protests. FSB advisers had been in Kiev from the outset, and in February 2014, an entire delegation arrived, including Surkov and Beseda, who were responsible for the ‘Ukrainian direction’ in the FSB:
https://www.themoscowtimes.com/2015/02/20/poroshenko-says-evidence-shows-kremlin-aide-surkov-directed-snipers-in-kiev-a44114
Pro-Russian militias in Ukraine in 2014 were directly financed and controlled by the Russian presidential administration:
https://uaposition.com/analysis-opinion/english-translation-audio-evidence-putins-adviser-glazyev-russian-politicians-involvement-war-ukraine
Despite these obvious facts of political intervention in both countries, there are still people out there whose minds are so dependent and clouded by Russian propaganda that they ignore these facts and instead uncritically repeat nonsense about ‘Yanukovych coup’ and ‘5 billion from the US’ when these funds were transferred over 20 years as part of official government support, including to the Yanukovych government…
https://foreignpolicy.com/2024/08/04/ukraine-maidan-revolution-russia-coup-myth-yanukovych/