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Opinion polls currently show that the new opposition party Tisza, headed by Péter Magyar, has a steady lead ahead of general ...

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We are looking for feature ideas about censorship from all over the world. We particularly like person-centred articles which give us a new insight about how freedom of expression is under threat. We ...

She longed for a normal life and to return to Moscow after years spent reporting on the war in Chechnya. She did return to ...