Russian President Vladimir Putin (R), Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor Orban. AP PHOTO/RIA-NOVOSTI, SERGEI GUNEYEV, PRESIDENTIAL PRESS SERVICE
BY PABLO GORONDI
The Associated Press
BUDAPEST, Hungary – Russian President Vladimir Putin travels to Budapest on Tuesday to meet the leader some Hungarians cast as his alter ego — “Little Putin.”
It’s a striking moniker for Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor Orban, who rose to international prominence in the 1980s as an anti-Soviet student leader. His transformation into a populist who cozies up to the Kremlin and stifles dissent mirrors a broader eastern European narrative in which rebellion against Moscow has evolved into mixed feelings about the …read more
Source: The News
