HeyJaredBack from the Front
I am a veteran foreign and war correspondent offering news summaries, news specials, comment and analysis, and field reports. I aim to be fair and incisive in my posts, not polemical. My main focus is Ukraine & Russia, the Middle East and eastern Europe.
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The man who carried out Europe’s worst massacre since World War Two (opens the original)
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Hungary’s New Dawn - The first 100 days (opens the original)
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Young Hungarians celebrating in the metro on election night in the spring.There were a few days in April when I spent hours sitting on my phone.The Hungarian government - then still under the direction of Viktor Orban - was known to have the Israeli-made Pegasus bugging software, and it had just threatened to arrest an opposition journalist, a new low.Meanwhile Orban himself, the strongman who had ruled Hungary since 2010, was up to all manner of dirty tricks. First, according to western intelli
Extra time (opens the original)
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