Hungary beware: authoritarianism can be checked, but it is rarely dismissed with a single blow

Federaţia Rusă

Poland has shown that it takes far more time and energy to rebuild a country’s rule of law than it does to dismantle it Poland has shown that it takes far more time and energy to rebuild a country’s rule of law than it does to dismantle it “H istoric” is an adjective used too often these days, at the risk of trivialising the word and diluting its substance. But Sunday’s Hungarian election , which marked the fall of Viktor Orbán after 16 years in power, deserves the label. The chief architect of