Ever since the Russian invasion of Ukraine, the Hungarian Prime Minister Orbán strives not to be associated with Putin’s regime, just like his European allies Marine Le Pen in France and Mateo Salvini in Italy.

In Slovakia, we need more alternatives, more private schools to help all children. Especially in a situation where we have 2.6% of children attending private primary schools.

In this episode of the Liberal Europe Podcast, Leszek Jażdżewski (Fundacja Liberté!) welcomes Alicja Bachulska, a MapInfluenCE China analyst in Poland and a member of China Observers in Central and Eastern Europe (CHOICE). They talk about the impact of the Russian aggression in Ukraine in a more global context – with the focus on China.

In the age when disinformation penetrates the mainstream of political discussions, the Ukrainian conflict has worked as a wake-up call, undoing decades of propaganda by the Kremlin. Even more so, it may have turned the tides on cheap economic nationalism, which has plagued the discussion over the last few years.

Unhack Democracy’s year-long investigation into the April 2018 Hungarian Parliamentary elections indicates Prime Minister Viktor Orbán secured his one-seat supermajority thanks to a combination of outright fraud, gerrymandering and by engineering the electoral system.