Robert Bathory is a senior correspondent with RFE/RL's Hungarian Service in Budapest.
When the first signs of trouble appeared, the ink wasn't yet dry on the deed for Laszlo Sifter and his wife's new house in the seemingly safe and picturesque Hungarian village of Teresztenye.
When the first signs of trouble appeared, the ink wasn't yet dry on the deed for Laszlo Sifter and his wife's new house in the seemingly safe and picturesque Hungarian village of Teresztenye. The mayor bragged that the village has special legal powers to keep the village 'Roma free.'
For more than a week, the Papp family from Ukraine's Transcarpathia region has been looking after their six children on the streets of Budapest. Hungary has cut back on housing aid for refugee families from parts of Ukraine that it deems no longer in danger from Russia's ongoing full-scale invasion.
Although much, if not all, prospecting for ancient artifacts is illegal in Hungary, experts say Hungarians and others equipped with metal detectors are digging up and looting the country of much of its archeological heritage.
