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rime minister Viktor Orban gave what has come to be known as his "illiberal democracy' speech before an ethnic Hungarian audi- ence in Bane Tu§nad, Romania.' Several points in his remarks are worth noting: Orban urged his listeners to no longer regard the 1989 triumph over communism as the reference
pers. In this view, the centuries may change and the Soviet empire may fade into history, but Russia's geopolitical predicament remains constant. Sakharov as nonperson Because Putin is intent on blaming the West for Rus- sia's problems, both past and present, he has worked to ensure that critical dome
d at 16.7 million, fully one half lived in the broad swath running north-south between Berlin and Moscow. Now, hardly any Jews remain in Poland or Romania, while Hungary and Ukraine have about 100,000 EFTA_R1_00225785 EFTA01840729 between them. Russia is the only country in this cradle of contempor
840727 dissident movement such as writer Alexander Solzhenitsyn and physicist Andrei Sakharov, the KGB spread rumors that they were. Or they said Sakharov, a naive and innocent academician, was under the spell of his devious Jewish wife Yelena Bonner. Then, as now, the implication was that only Jews
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dly organizations have generally been left alone. emorial, the human rights organization founded to carry forward the ideals associated with Andrey Sakharov, was one of the first groups to be unilaterally registered as a foreign agent by the Justice Ministry in 2014. In 2015, the ministry accused Memoria
Page: HOUSE_OVERSIGHT_019260 →prime minister Viktor Orban gave what has come to be known as his “illiberal democracy" speech before an ethnic Hungarian audi- ence in Baile Tusnad, Romania.! Several points in his remarks are worth noting: ¢ Orban urged his listeners to no longer regard the 1989 triumph over communism as the reference p
Page: HOUSE_OVERSIGHT_019269 →Entities connected to both Romania and Sakharov

Jeffrey Epstein
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Hungary
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Bulgaria
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Estonia
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Norway
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Denmark
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Finland
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Latvia
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Slovakia
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European Union
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United States
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Marc Rich
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George W. Bush
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Malaysia
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Barack Obama
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Philippines
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Venezuela
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Donald Trump
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Department of Justice
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