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Russia is giving its masterclass in election interference ahead of Hungary's vote
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Russia is giving its masterclass in election interference ahead of Hungary's vote

by Liubov Tsybulska

When Hungarians go to the polls tomorrow, they will be voting in an environment poisoned by probably the largest documented campaign of foreign election interference in EU history. The central paradox of this campaign is not that Russia is interfering — that has long become the norm. It is that Russia is doing so while wearing a Ukrainian disguise. In Hungarian elections this year, the Kremlin has bundled everything into one package and added an element never before deployed at this scale: the

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