Hungarian reception of changing political scenes in Bulgaria and Moldova

17 July 2021 Eva S. Balogh

Hungarian reception of changing political scenes in Bulgaria and Moldova

Review of the Hungarian press and its experts’ say on the neighbourhoodEva S. BaloghEva S. Balogh is the editor and primary pundit of The Hungarian Spectrum. Previously, she taught East European history at Yale University.

5 July 2021 Maria Cernat - Boyan Stanislasvski

Orban’s latest outburst against the LGBT community. w/ Emese Szilágyi

“On the barricades” — s02e37Maria Cernat – Boyan StanislasvskiBoyan Stanislavski (Poland) and Maria Cernat (Romania) make a regular video podcast, in which they discuss various developments in Poland, Romania and the region. The work title of their podcast is “Squatting reds in tracksuits”

29 June 2021 Rita Béres-Deák

What Is the Hungarian “Pedophilia Act” and What Is behind It?

A view by the anthropologist Rita Beres-DeakRita Béres-DeákRita Béres-Deák is a cultural anthropologist and LGBTQ activist from Hungary, currently living in Vienna. She received her BA in Cultural Anthropology at ELTE Budapest University in 2001 and her MA in Gender Studies at the Central European University in 2002. She received her

16 June 2021 Soma Ábrahám Kiss

“You don’t own a business; you own a bike or a Suzuki”

The realities of forced self-employment in Hungary.Soma Ábrahám KissSoma Ábrahám Kiss is a journalist at the Hungarian news and opinion portal Mérce, sociologist and hopefully an anthropologist one day. Former courier and bartender.

15 June 2021 The Barricade

‘The Future Arrives On Its Own – Progress Does Not’

Fifty years ago, on 4 June 1971, the philosopher Georg Lukács died in Budapest.The Barricade

7 February 2021 Vladimir Mitev

The geopolitical vaccine war is caused by profit-making

The current vaccination programmes in the West and around the world are increasing geopolitical tensions because of intellectual rights. Calls for the abolition of vaccines patents are on the increaseVladimir MitevVladimir Mitev is a Bulgarian-Romanian journalist based in Rousse, a town on the very border between the two countries. He

6 December 2020 Maria Cernat - Boyan Stanislasvski

Hungarian Sexual Wars – Say No to Gay Marriage, Say Yes to Gay Orgy

On the Barricades Podcast has as special guests Antal Antilla and Stefano Bottoni, commenting on the scandal with the Hungaran MEP Jozsef SzajerMaria Cernat – Boyan StanislasvskiBoyan Stanislavski (Poland) and Maria Cernat (Romania) make a regular video podcast, in which they discuss various developments in Poland, Romania and the region.

15 April 2020 The Barricade

The Authoritarian Regime Tests the Introduction of Dictatorship. Orbán’s Repeated Attempt

Comment on Hungary’s Enabling Act, passed on 23 March 2020The Barricade

27 August 2018 Lacko Solymár

Orban and the modern Central European witchhunt

In 1116 Coloman the Learned, Hungary’s king at the time, declared there were no such things as witches, and this saved us from burning each other at the stake. A pillar of “western civilization” development which entertained for centuries. We had to wait for the XXI century and our new

12 April 2018 Lacko Solymár

Apathy, demoralization, fear porn, conspiracy theories and no politics. Thus Orbán

Well, it happened again! Just when you had put all your hopes and dreams into one thing, that there would be a change in the regime – against all common sense, the good people of Hungary asked for four more years of Orbán. Lacko SolymárLacko Solymár a is Hungarian anarchist. He studied