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New episode in the Malina Hedvig case? 2008-01-22 12:06:00 A video appeared on YouTube in which a person dressed in a Slovakian police uniform is shooting a doll and calls it Hedvig. His friend is yelling "Shoot on Hedvig, It's Hedvig, Kill her!". All the Slovakian newspapers agree that the persons on the recording refer to the girl named Malina Hedvig. Click for more.Hedvig Malina is an ethnic Hungarian student from Horné Mýto (Hungarian: Vámosfalu), Slovakia, who was allegedly beaten by Slovakian nationalists for speaking Hungarian on her mobile phone. Her case represents a highly controversial and debated issue of Hungarian-Slovak relations.Hungarian ethnic newspaper Új Szó claims that the video was made on a Slovakian police high school training in Bazin. The Slovak Ministry of Internal affairs denied these charges and initiated an investigation.The video named "police school Slovakia pezinok" was made for the "first anniversary" of the incident and was removed from YouTube today. ...

Illegal metro party in Budapest 2008-01-20 20:10:00 A flash mob-like action took place on subway-line 3 in Budapest on Saturday where a whole wagon was totally occupied for a few stops. The participans calling themselves the 4th republic were organising the event through e-mails and gathered almost 200 people hungry for a cool "metro party". The action was ceased when the driver stopped the veichle and called security and the police. Click for video and more.According to the police: "(..) raging young people occupied a subway wagon which was forced to wait for 13 minutes (...) no damage or personal injuries were done." The action seemed to scare the hell out of the authorities because they arrived with a relatively huge force on the scene although in other countries these events are quite common.And maybe if the Budapest Mass Transportation Company would have watch the film Kontroll they might have not been scared like hell:picture made by visualterror ...

Cool Pesti Est commercial 2008-01-17 15:39:00 Pesti Est (a program flyer in Budapest) has launched a new commercial on television aiming teens. We don't want to analyse the ad just publish it because we like the background music. It is a Hungarian remake of Voy A Acabar Borracho by Platero Y Tu. Unfortunately the producers have no desire to make a single of it. Maybe one day. Until then:no me importa la genteno voy a ser decenteno voy a ser legal,voy a ser un animal. ...

"Maugli of Blaha Lujza square" 2008-01-16 14:26:00 One week after stabbing a 15-year old boy in an attempt to steal his MP3 player, Krisztián, the 12-year old homeless, Hungarian-speaking Romanian boy was finally returned to Romania. Although several people indicated that they were willing to take care of him in Hungary, he was deported from the country.He had appeared before in the media as the "Maugli of Blaha Lujza square" on a video made by Index.hu. 120 cm of pure violence, surviving on the streets.More after the click.The stabbing case received high publicity, because noone under 14 can be held criminally responsible for his actions (whether Hungarian or Romanian), so the police couldn't do anything with the boy except to release him. This wasn't Krisztián's first crime, he had been involved in several thefts, as he was a homeless, living in the underpasses of Blaha Lujza square. As he had no legal guardian in Hungary, police and child protection services had repeatedly placed him in a child-care institution, but each time K ...

OFF: The lethal weapon of the communist propaganda 2008-01-14 08:59:00 What else is able to sedate millions of people in front of the Tv screens than tits and politics. The show is called "Szuperbola", it was aired in the 1980's on the one and only state television. The New Year's Eve's edition features a parody of the new state policy, the so-called "grand opening to the west" by showing it as the grand opening of the bras (and the rest). Good part begins from 0:45. And if it's about nude stuff then it is determined that the Hungarian porn celeb politician Cicciolina has to be included (at 2:10). ...

We are back! 2008-01-08 17:57:00 After two desperate months of work we weren't sure whether to go on with this site, but the growing number of visitors and the motivation of the Szávay fan club left us no choice, but to return! We will post once a week except of course if something breaking happens. So continue to enjoy! Oh, and 50% less politics ;) ...

OFF:Divorced fathers playing on their kids 2007-11-28 18:14:00 The masterpiece is called: Venus. Maybe they are the second chance after Speak to conquer the world. ...

Budapest is the capital of what European country? 2007-11-27 19:09:00 We haven't posted for a while since we still have a lot to do, but you can't miss this breaking event in the American: Are You Smarter than a 5th Grader? ...

Status: away 2007-11-11 19:55:00 Duty calls again so unless the government is overthrown we won't post for a week. Hang on and keep your fingers crossed.animal picture thing reached down from poszto.blog.hu ...

LIVE: The downfall 2007-11-10 19:06:00 Nothing more to add: STOHL András, live, tonight, over one million watching. Awkward it is! ...

Serbia's solution for the "Árpád Stripe question" 2007-11-09 10:04:00 Yasha brought me this mug from Montenegro a few years ago but I only noticed its importance yesterday. The solution for the Árpád stripe problem from Tito himself. Maybe this will bring balance to the force? I doubt that, but nice concept anyway. ...

Ecstasy in toys 2007-11-08 11:36:00 "Moose Enterprise has announced an immediate and voluntary Australia wide product recall for its Bindeez Beads toy after being informed that some children who had swallowed the beads required medical attention." This is the official announcement of Moose Enterprise about the Bindeez toys, of course they forgot to describe the content of "medical attention".The cover of the Bindeez pearls -because of bad manufacturing- transforms to ecstasy in the stomach. All the toys are recalled and their price will be refunded says SZIGETI Zsuzsanna the representative of the Hungarian "dealer". ...

Campaign against Sziget Festival 2007-11-07 10:16:00 The major of Újpest has sued the organisers of Sziget and demands the court to ban the concerts between 10pm and 6am on the Festival. As they say the Festival breaches the allowed limit of noise and the people in the neighborhood districts are forced to "suffer" this every year. The head of the organisers GERNDAI Károly admits that sometimes they breach these measures but this doesn't justify this restriction which endangers the existence of the Festival. He said this action of the Újpest district was a part of a campaign against Sziget. This isnt't their first law suit against them and the new noise regulation in the district draws up impossible measures. Poles show that only 7% of the locals think that the late night programs of the Festival disturb them.picture made by aldo ...

Pink handbag of the Health Minister endangered the security of Hungarian camp in Afghanistan- says FIDESZ 2007-11-06 11:51:00 The Hungarian Health Minister HORVÁTH Ágnes visited a hospital under construction in Afghanistan with her husband. Opposition party FIDESZ argued that if the Ministry was invited, then a relative had nothing to do there especially on the money of the taxpayers. And besides, as the National Defence Workgroup of the party said the pink case of the Minister had been a security threat to the whole Hungarian base because of its "rich colour".I apologise to all the photoshop experts! ... Health

Anettka, the Opera 2007-11-04 20:24:00 As index.hu reported BARTOS Tiborwrote a contemporary opera about Anettka. The story is about a teacher (Anettka) who meets an opera author who tells her his stories about the world war, revolution and the transition in Hungary. It is a kind of surreal political something. Experts say the play made no sense, but whatever - we only used this occasion to write about our second favourite celeb woman.Anettka (a.k.a FEHÉR Anett) is known to be the first "punk" celeb in Hungary. She first appeared in a live late night show on Budapest Tv where the half naked show woman was chatting with the people calling in. About her mother usually. Anettka had many "media hacks", for example advertising a piano naked or her girlfriend masturbating on her billboard-size picture. Her last big shot was an attempt to travel to space, but she only got a Russian jet plane taking her up to 50km in the sky. The blog of Hungary believes she is a Cylon.Anettka videos after the click, but we warn you there's gonna ...