How Hungary’s new leader is turning into a bigger friend to Putin than anybody had thought
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Viktor Orban’s fall has been hailed as a shift away from Moscow, yet new prime minister Peter Magyar’s stance on energy and Ukraine suggests a more subtle alignment that could fill the Kremlin’s coffers, writes Owen Matthews I s this the best of times for the Kremlin , or the worst of times? With the world distracted by Israel and the US’s war on Iran and Lebanon, Vladimir Putin has been enjoying a cash windfall. Higher oil prices are set to refill the Kremlin’s war-depleted coffers ,
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