"Not only the walls need to be rebuilt” – an interview with State Secretary Tristan Azbej
Part of the self-respect of a nation, of a country, is the ability to show solidarity, to reach out to those with whom we...
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„Many teenagers who believed in freedom died in the revolution”
I feel it's my duty to embrace the goal of the boys in Pest in '56, and that's why I'm working to help Hungarian... -
This is how the girl in the red coat remembers the revolution: 'We breathed together'
She did not even suspect that she would become a messenger of freedom when she put on her red coat and headed to the... -
The champion who found his way home - Ferenc Puskás has everything we Hungarians love about ourselves
There aren’t many Hungarians who do not have at least one, direct or indirect memory of Ferenc Puskás. For me, the first of these... -
The most honoured daughter of the country - Countess Antonia Zichy, wife of Lajos Batthyány
The consort of the martyred Prime Minister, Count Lajos Batthyány, executed on 6 October 1849, was not only a faithful wife but also an... -
The story of the healing golden rice and the human-hearted bunny - or the benefits of genetic modification today
Dr. Péter Major is best known for the cultural content of shoeshine.hu, one of the founding members of the organisation. But few people know... -
The serf who almost became Pope - the life of Tamás Bakócz
The greatest figure of the medieval Hungarian church, he went from a serf boy to a true Renaissance prince of the priesthood. Tamás Bakócz... -
How does a whale-obsessed little girl become a cetacean biologist working to protect and learn about the biggest mammals on Earth?
" As a child, I was very attracted to whale stories such as 'Free Willy' or National Geographic episodes," says cetacean biologist Dóra Székely... -
Albert-László Barabási: "The responsibility of the scientist is to communicate clearly"
I had a conversation with the world-renowned Hungarian network researcher. For once, I do not want to extend the following text with a lengthy... -
The story of a Scottish missionary who was taken to Auschwitz from Budapest
As one of the leaders of the Scottish Mission School in Budapest, Jane Haining did her best to keep the school an island of... -
Kata Molnár-Bánffy: „Conservatism is not guarding the past, but the future”
In her recent Facebook post, Kata Molnár-Bánffy urges us to dare to embrace our Christian values, to dare to speak about the importance of... -
„Our sign is the cross not the swastica” – A Hungarian count in Czechoslovakia
The communist dictatorship has taken its victims during the decades of its rule, both within and beyond our borders, among Hungarians forced into minority... -
From a villa in Buda to a chicken coop on a farm – The life story of Zsigmond Széchenyi
„We are given imagination as compensation for what we are not, and a sense of humour as consolation for what we are.” ( Count... -
Close to the heart of society - the launch of the Hungarian Women's Aid Service
On 13 June 1915, the National Stefania Association was founded to solve the great social challenges of the era, the high infant and maternal... -
Diána Ürge-Vorsatz: “Do I have the right to consume more but they don’t have the right to live?”
The recent past has been an unusual time for us all. It came with losses, lessons, and – although these are perhaps less obvious... -
Not an idea out of the air – Interview with Dr Rita Somogyi, winner of the Transport Innovation Award
A young Hungarian engineer, Dr. Rita Somogyi, and her team have now brought a new and precise solution to the field of GPS-based support... -
“The fact is, you should be exterminated! – the fates of priests after 1956
In the wake of the crushing of the 1956 Revolution until late 1957, that is, in just over one year, nearly 20,000 people were...
