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The Hungarian intelligence services found that Russian diplomats and people in Russian military form participated in the training of members of the neo -Nazi organization "Hungarian National Front" (Magyar Nemzeti Arcvonal, MNA). It is reported by Financial Times.

Hungarian journalists gained access to the correspondence of MNA leaders. From their letters it follows that the organization received financial assistance from Russia.

As sources in the Hungarian special services told the publication, the official Budapest was known about these connections. However, the authorities preferred not to raise a question of fears that Russia would refuse to jointly with Hungary of economic projects, in particular, from the supply of gas and the construction of two reactors at the nuclear power plant in the city of Paksha.

Former Prime Minister Ferenz Durchan claims that hundreds of Russian spies work in Hungary with impunity, turning Budapest into Malaya Moscow.

The theme of assistance to the Hungarian Nazis from Russia surfaced after the arrest of one of the leaders of MNA Iztan Djorkosh on charges of distributing and the distribution of and human -human ideology. During the detention, he barricaded in his house and began to shoot back, as a result of which the policeman was killed. Djorkesh openly called himself a Nazi and admired the founder and leader of the Hungarian party "crossed arrows" by Ferenc Salashi, executed in 1946. During the Second World War, Salashi was an ally of Hitler, and in 1944 he established a Nazi dictatorship in Hungary.

In connection with the publication in FT, the Minister of Foreign Affairs of Hungary Peter Siyarto said that he would wait for a full report on the possible involvement of Russia in financing the MNA role of Russia and file a complaint if the information is confirmed.

Meanwhile, the Russian embassy in Budapest called the "stupidity" of reports about the contacts of Russian diplomats with MNA. “I don’t want to comment on any stupidity,” said Valery Lyakhov, adviser -member of the Russian diplomatic mission in Hungary. “This insinuation appeared on one of the Internet portals a couple of weeks ago and was replicated once solid Financial Times.”

Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor Orban consistently advocates improving relations with Russia. In March, the Foreign Minister of Hungary and Italy opposed the automatic extension and expansion of anti -Russian sanctions . “The issue should be resolved at the highest level. The decision cannot be made automatically,” Siyarto said then.

Last May, US Vice President Joseph Biden said that Russia was financing a European radical opposition . Supporting it, as well as “using corruption and oligarchs,” the Russian authorities, according to Biden, expect to destabilize the situation in the USSR countries. In addition, the US Vice President said that the Russian authorities, led by President Putin, are using a "hybrid war" to expand their influence in Europe outside Ukraine.

In January, The Telegraph reported that the US Congress instructed the Director of National Intelligence James Clapper to investigate the activities of the Kremlin influence in the European Union. In particular, special services should draw up a detailed overview of underground financing by Russian structures of European parties and public organizations over the past 10 years. The sources of the publication did not specify which parties and organizations can be discussed. At the same time, they suggested that the investigation would affect primarily ultra -right and nationalist groups. The greatest concern in the United States is caused by Russian activity in France, the Netherlands, Hungary, the Czech Republic and Austria.