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		<title>The New York Times is talking Hungary&#8230;</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 22 Jan 2012 15:58:51 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Here are the two newest New York Times articles on the increasingly dire situation in Hungary: Hungary&#8217;s Junk Democracy by Gyorgy Konrad  (a scathing op-ed about the over-reach of Hungary&#8217;s new Constitution, it&#8217;s impact on the Hungarian people, and the downgrading of Hungary&#8217;s debt by 3 leading credit rating institutions as &#8220;junk. A junk country, [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=hungarianwatch.wordpress.com&amp;blog=18770040&amp;post=1038&amp;subd=hungarianwatch&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Solidarity with Szabó&#8217;s Trafó</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 22 Jan 2012 15:20:04 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[In light of the recent firing of György Szabó as the director of Trafó House of Contemporary Art, his supporters have begun a blog: Solidarity with Szabó&#8217;s Trafó. Here, you can find statement&#8217;s of support from Szabó&#8217;s colleagues from all over the globe and articles in English on the changeover at Trafó.  The authors of the [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=hungarianwatch.wordpress.com&amp;blog=18770040&amp;post=1034&amp;subd=hungarianwatch&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>The end of an era&#8230;</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 18 Jan 2012 12:11:28 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[In another shocking political maneuver, the Budapest city government has ousted  György Szabó as the director of Trafó House of Contemporary Arts and replaced him with choreographer Yvette Bozsik. Here is why this decision flies in the face in intelligence and decency: György Szabó is a phenomenon.  He is beloved in the fields of contemporary [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=hungarianwatch.wordpress.com&amp;blog=18770040&amp;post=1030&amp;subd=hungarianwatch&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Thank you, Paul Krugman</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 03 Jan 2012 04:00:07 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[It appears Mr. Krugman has created some much needed media momentum with his December 2011 op-ed “Depression and Democracy,”which highlighted the deterioration of democratic values in Hungary.  One of his sources, Kim Lane Scheppele, seems to have been given some regular space on the NY Times blog to devote to the situation in Hungary.  Her [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=hungarianwatch.wordpress.com&amp;blog=18770040&amp;post=1025&amp;subd=hungarianwatch&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Culture is good&#8230;right?</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 03 Jan 2012 03:37:09 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Spiegel Online recently posted an incredibly poignant, terrifyingly candid article on Hungary&#8217;s Right-Wing War on Culture by Philipp Oehmke. It&#8217;s worth a close read.  In it, Mr. Oehmke describes the takeover of Budapest&#8217;s popular New Theater by a pair of notorious anti-Semites, György Dörner and István Csurka. In his hasty, thrown together application to be [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=hungarianwatch.wordpress.com&amp;blog=18770040&amp;post=1021&amp;subd=hungarianwatch&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Orban&#8217;s New Pen Pal</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 03 Jan 2012 02:28:06 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Hillary Clinton wrote a letter to Prime Minister Orban on December 23rd&#8230;maybe it was a Christmas present.  Maybe it was intended to be a stocking stuffer.  Maybe she hoped he would actually read it and then actually take action.  In any case, we wonder if he will be responding any time soon.  Or maybe he&#8217;s [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=hungarianwatch.wordpress.com&amp;blog=18770040&amp;post=1016&amp;subd=hungarianwatch&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Hungarian Civil Disobedience in Bloom</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 24 Dec 2011 01:46:03 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[The ignition of a revolution often needs a mere spark to catch fire, and a bold act of civil disobedience has sparked many a revolution. What 27 activists, including former Socialist Prime Minister Ferenc Gyurcsany, 9 MPs representing the green liberal party, LMP, and the head of the Socialist Party, did today was nothing short of [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=hungarianwatch.wordpress.com&amp;blog=18770040&amp;post=1006&amp;subd=hungarianwatch&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>&#8220;Hungary&#8217;s Constitutional Revolution&#8221;</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 24 Dec 2011 00:53:40 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[In response to Paul Krugman&#8217;s column outlining the erosion of democracy in Hungary, his Princeton colleague, Kim Lane Scheppele, one of his sources for the op-ed, expanded on the situation in Hungary in a NY Times blog post.  She gives an eloquent, concise argument explaining the fuss over Hungary&#8217;s move to the right and the [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=hungarianwatch.wordpress.com&amp;blog=18770040&amp;post=1003&amp;subd=hungarianwatch&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Nobody dwindles democracy like Hungary</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 24 Dec 2011 00:31:24 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[The venerable, Nobel Prize-winning economist, Princeton University professor, and New York Times columnist Paul Krugman recently wrote a sobering op-ed, &#8220;Depression and Democracy,&#8221; calling the current global economic crisis a depression and equating the financial stress on the backbone of the world economy with stress on democratic values around the world. And then he went [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=hungarianwatch.wordpress.com&amp;blog=18770040&amp;post=999&amp;subd=hungarianwatch&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>&#8220;What Is a National Theatre: Róbert Alföldi battles to invigorate Hungary&#8217;s Premier stage with visions of the here and now&#8221; (American Theatre Magazine)</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 30 Nov 2011 00:13:24 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[American Theatre Magazine, November 11, 2011. By Robert Avila.<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=hungarianwatch.wordpress.com&amp;blog=18770040&amp;post=985&amp;subd=hungarianwatch&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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