Hungary, Serbia, Montenegro 'no longer democracies': Report

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A SUITCASE FULL OF CASH FROM THE SOLNTSEVO MAFIA: DOES PUTIN HAVE A COMPROMAT ON THE HUNGARIAN LEADER?

Last week Vladimir Putin went to pay an official visit to Hungary, where he meet Prime Minister Viktor Orbán, one of the European leaders most loyal to the Kremlin.



The Insider, a Russian media outlet, discovered, one of the reasons for his loyalty might be a video with compromising info on Orbán, filmed back in the mid 1990s by crime kingpin Semion Mogilevich.  As a result, the Russo-Hungarian friendship is growing, while money from joint contracts flow to opaque offshore accounts.



In 1998, when the leader of the Fidesz (Hungarian Civic Alliance) Viktor Orbán was first elected Prime Minister, unlike his predecessors, he skipped visiting Moscow and had often chastised Russia, particularly after Vladimir Putin came to power.  For example, in 2007, Orbán harshly lambasted the Government for being "blind" to the "growing influence" Russia wields via its vast energy giants, and suggested that Hungary should play it European.  "Those young people following us should not allow Hungary to become Gazprom's most cheerful barracks," said Orbán, alluding to Hungary's pre-1989 status as "Moscow's most cheerful barracks."  In 2008, he continued to criticize the Kremlin, calling other European governments "Moscow's puppets," and deeming the endorsement of the "South Stream" project by the previous government as high treason.



Suddenly in 2009, everything changed. Orban unexpectedly showed up at the "United Russia" convention in Saint Petersburg, where he met Putin.  He immediately ceased criticizing Russia, and a year later, when Orbán became the Hungarian Prime Minister, he became one of the key Putin apologists in Europe.  Whatever happened to Orbán in such a short period of time? Could it be the arrest of criminal kingpin Semion Mogilevich in Moscow, that influenced the Hungarian leader?

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Freedom House also reported a "stunning democratic breakdown" across the 29 countries it surveyed from Central Europe to Central Asia, noting there are now "fewer democracies in the region today than at any point since the annual report was launched in 1995".

Well, Russia & China are playing a blinder when it comes to destabilizing the world order.