Around eighty members of the Hungarian National Guard peacefully protested at a police station in Bekescsaba, a town in southeast Hungary, after a Guard event at a nearby farm on Saturday was cancelled after police allegedly found hand grenades there. An MP of the nationalist Jobbik party, Gergo Tamas Samu, told MTI at the demonstration that if the police had indeed found hand grenades then they must have been placed by there by national security officers.

The Soviet Union fell apart almost two decades ago, but its sentiment is still strong in Russian culture.

While many people are still talking about how Orbán walked away from talks with the IMF, an article at index.hu argues that Hungary is unlikely to avoid dealings with the IMF should it find itself in need of a loan in the near future. While the original article is long, it can be summarized as pointing out that when the EU loans money, it prefers if others are on board as well, namely the IMF, so that it is not the only lender.

Following calls to skip this year's August 20th fireworks display in favor of giving the money to flood victims in northeast Hungary, the government decided to instead have a subdued fireworks program, with the money saved being turned to flood relief.

The Bulgarian police have started a special operation aiming to establish the location of people, declared for national and international inquiry. The operation was executed around the Bulgarian town of Polski Trambesh Friday. The police have checked more than 100 addresses....

Political analyst Gábor Török had an interesting observation about the parliament recently, writing that during parliamentary sessions, the Socialists, Fidesz and the Christian Dems will only send a few bored MPs to take part in arguments, while both LMP and Jobbik send their MPs well prepared and ready to ask questions, to the point that former Socialist chairwoman Ildikó Lendvai even talked about her "activities" prior to system change, which you can

The chair of the Bulgarian Parliament, Tsetska Tsacheva, will open the third edition of the summer opera and ballet festival "Stage of the Ages" in the Bulgarian city of Veliko Tarnovo. The festival will be situated on the Tsarevets hill in Veliko Tarnovo. It will feature singers and dancers from the National Opera and Ballet, as well as the dancers from ballet "Arabesque". ...

Motorway to connect Krakow and Rzeszów

The regional Prosecution's Office of the Bulgarian city of Kardzhali has accused Dzhem Mustafa of persuading two women into prostitution. Mustafa has been detained for 72 hours. The regional Prosecution's Office will prepare and submit to the district court a request for his arrest. ...

The protracted economic crisis has caused a realignment among Hungary's top 100 companies, according to the list published on Thursday by Figyelo, the precursor of Figyelo's TOP 200 list due to be published in October. The top 100 companies' list, based on sales revenue, includes 19 entries, 8 companies that jumped more than ten places higher - including Jabil Circuit and pharmaceutical company Richter - and 16 companies that fell more than ten places in the ranking.