Budapest, October 22 (MTI) – The anti-government rioters have split into groups, as police have pushed them away from the Opera House and Andrassy boulevard where they had clashed earlier. Continue »

Budapest, October 22 (MTI) – Riot police have started pushing anti-government rioters towards the Western railway station, away from the Opera House, the site of 1956 commemorations, MTI’s on-site correspondent reported. Continue »

Budapest, October 22 (MTI) – The 1956 Hungarian revolution and armed uprising against the Stalinist dictatorship and Soviet occupation started with a peaceful student demonstration on October 23. Continue »

Budapest, October 22 (MTI) – As Hungary gets ready to commemorate the 51st anniversary of the 1956 anti-Soviet uprising, law enforcement authorities are also preparing for a possible repeat of last year’s violence by extremists and football thugs on the streets of the capital. Continue »

Budapest, October 22 (MTI) – On October 23, 1956, thousands of people took to the streets to demand an end to Soviet rule. Last year, on the same day, violence engulfed the streets of Budapest, a furious reaction to a speech by Prime Minister Ferenc Gyurcsany laying bare his Socialist-led government’s past failures and deceit. Continue »

Budapest, October 22 (MTI) – Far right anti-government demonstrators have attacked police near the Opera House in downtown Budapest on Monday around 2000, while commemorations of the 1956 revolution were being held inside the building. Continue »

Budapest, October 22 (MTI) – Far right anti-government demonstrators have attacked police near the Opera House in downtown Budapest on Monday evening, just before commemorations of the 1956 revolution began inside the building. Continue »

Budapest, October 22 (MTI) – Hungary’s senior governing Socialist party (MSZP) held its official commemoration of the 1956 anti-Soviet revolution in Kaposvar (SW Hungary) on Monday. Continue »

Budapest, October 22 (MTI) – The legacy of 1956 should be shared by all, Prime Minister Ferenc Gyurcsany said in an interview to Nepszava daily on Monday, on the eve of the 51st anniversary of Hungary’s anti-Soviet uprising. Continue »

Washington, October 22 (MTI) – Hungarian-born US Congressman Tom Lantos has agreed to write an official letter to Slovak Prime Minister Rober Fico to express concern about the political developments affecting ethnic Hungarians in Slovakia, president of the Hungarian American Coalition Maximilian Teleki said on Sunday local time. Continue »