Haha. On May 4, Hungary quietly expelled a Russian spy - a 36-year-ol...

Haha. On May 4, Hungary quietly expelled a Russian spy - 36-year-old officer of Russia's Foreign Intelligence Service, Artur Sushkov, who was working at the Russian embassy in Budapest under diplomatic cover, VSquare reports.

The fact that Russian embassies all across Europe are crawling with Russian agents is far from news. The funny part is something else.

Hungarian counterintelligence reported to Orban that he was an undercover agent and proposed expelling him back in February, but Orban refused to do so, because he did not want to spoil relations with Moscow on the eve of the parliamentary elections, which he lost.

So, like, his own special services come to Orban, point to a specific person, and say: "That man is a Russian agent, he needs to be expelled." And Orban is like: "No."

Sushkov was engaged in infiltrating foreign policy think tanks close to Orban, building up his network of informants, and carrying out recruitment. Hungarian special services identified him as an officer of Russia's Foreign Intelligence Service.

Former Hungarian counterintelligence officer Peter Buda says that such situations happened more than once during Orban's time in power - his government interfered in the work of the security services and prevented them from carrying out their direct duties.

Earlier, VSquare reported on how three operatives of Russian military intelligence arrived in Hungary before the elections. Fortunately, it did not help.