The First Anniversary of the Red Sludge Disaster Three colours, green, white, and brown dominate the landscape in the village of Kolontár and the town of Devecser, nearly a year after the disaster. The colours are deeply restful to eyes grown accustomed to the all pervasive red left by the
Ada Kaleh, which means “the island of the fortress” in Turkish, was 1.75 km long and 400–500 metres wide. Due to its great strategic importance, guarding the river after it emerged through the treacherous waters of the Iron Gates, between the Carpathians and the Balkan mountain ranges, it was occupied
A New Exhibition at the Budapest Museum of Fine Arts Hundreds of mummies were bought in markets in Egypt in the late 19th century, and transported to North America and various European countries, including Hungary. That was easy in those days. Egypt seemed to be overflowing with mummies, and there
Reflections on the arrest of Ratko Mladić „A difficult period of our history is now over,” Serbian President Boris Tadić told reporters in Belgrade, as he announced the arrest of Ratko Mladić in the northern Vojvodinan village of Lazarevo earlier that day, “we have removed the stain from the face
NT: Please tell me first where you are setting out for in the morning. IF: There are some hard tours we do, but this is the opposite. A light summer excursion – three concerts, two lovely cities in northern Italy, Brescia and Bergamo, which are comfortably close to each other, so there’s
A Memoir of Bosnia, on the Eve of War Roberta Flack was singing, “Killing me softly,” in the lobby of the Hotel Bosna in Banja Luka when I arrived. “Strumming my pain with his fingers/ singing my life with his words/ killing me softly with his song…” Bosnia in the
European Energy Security NT: Hungary and Slovakia have just signed an agreement to build a new gas pipeline linking the two countries. Last October a new, 100 km gas pipeline was opened with great fanfare, linking Hungary and Romania. Work continues on a pipeline linking Hungary and Croatia. How much longer
About tolerance and ritual, and the problem of sincerity A conversation on the sidelines of the International Summer School of Religion and Public Life in Nicosia, Cyprus in July 2010. NT: You have written about the need for a new and deeper understanding of tolerance, beyond or instead of the modern
“In today’s world it can happen to anyone,” the Hungarian Penal Justice Authority proclaims helpfully on the opening page of its website, “that they end up in prison as a result of a bad decision or a momentary mistake…” That would certainly be bad enough. But what if that bad
To tell the truth, I’ve never much liked Ajka. It was one of those small industrial towns I passed through on my way from the almost Tuscan beauty of the hilly northern shore of Lake Balaton, to visit my friends in Gyor, a city which shines like an amethyst on
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