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Russia Proposed Staging an Assassination Attempt

Summary by Political Wire
“In the run-up to Hungary’s pivotal election in April, a unit of Russia’s foreign intelligence service last month began sounding the alarm over plummeting public support for Prime Minister Viktor Orban, whose friendly ties to Moscow have long given the Kremlin a strategic foothold inside NATO and the European Union,” the Washington Post reports. “Officers from the intelligence service, or SVR, suggested that drastic action might be necessary — a…

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Russia's foreign intelligence agency, the SVR, considered staging an assassination attempt on Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor Orban before the April elections in Hungary, the Washington Post reports.

·Estonia
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Center

In order to help Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor Orban in the electoral campaign, the Russian Foreign Information Service proposed the operation "Gamechanger": an attempted murder attempt designed to mobilize supporters, reports The Washington Post.

·Romania
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In an effort to help Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor Orban win the election, Russian intelligence wanted to stage an assassination attempt on him, The Washington Post reports.

·Vilnius, Lithuania
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Lean Right

According to a report, Russia has proposed to stage an attack on Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor Orban, which should help Orban to succeed in the election.

·Berlin, Germany
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Lean Left

Viktor Orbán is back in the polls just before the election. Russian allies apparently had a plan to change that.

Lean Left

Russian intelligence services were considering a scenario of staging an assassination attempt on Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor Orban to influence the Hungarian elections.

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Political Wire broke the news in New York, United States on Saturday, March 21, 2026.
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