Russian Spies, Attempts at Influence, and the Political Decision Not to Fight It Hard by the Authorities

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Russian intelligence may have an easier time in Hungary because the state does not do everything to counter it, Péter Krekó and Szabolcs Panyi believed at the presentation of Shaun Walker's book about Russian spies.

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Those foreign political analysts whose presence was questioned by one of their Hungarian research colleagues at the government-affiliated Mathias Corvinus Collegium are indeed considered pro-Kremlin ideologues. Some have been banned from YouTube, others have been detained on suspicion of espionage, and some have connections to Russian institutions.