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Gereben, Ágnes
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3 articles of this author have been cited in the European Press Review so far.
Harsh criticism of German article on Hungary
In the right-wing conservative newspaper Magyar Hírlap Ágnes Gereben expresses her disgust at an article written by Christian Schmidt-Häuer in the German weekly Die Zeit that reports on the advance of Hungarian right-wing radicalism: "Christian Schmidt-Häuer's intellectual capacities weren't just enough for a book; the mendacious glorification of the last General Secretary of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union Mikhail Gorbachev and of the state socialism revitalised by reforms. … Now he has written something else: … The leftist press in Hungary is disseminating his dirty article as the opinion of the 'West'. Schmidt-Häuer is a nobody. There are quite a few of his sort running around west of the Leitha [river]: losers who … the KGB or the state security services of one of the former socialist countries caught committing an offence at some point. Every now and then they are blackmailed into using targeted disinformation to discredit inconvenient politicians, parties and countries."
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More from the press review on the subject » Print media, » Weltanschauung, » Germany, » Hungary
Gas dispute was long planned
In the business daily Világgazdaság historian and Russia expert Ágnes Gereben writes that the current gas dispute differs from previous conflicts: "In contrast to the Russian-Ukrainian gas dispute three years ago this time Moscow acted neither unexpectedly nor has it used drastic means to start this dispute, but rather carefully planned it. It did seem strange when on November 20 Russian President Dmitry Medvedev publicly ordered Gazprom boss Alexei Miller to immediately collect the billions of dollars owed it by its Ukrainian partner Naftogaz. ... But this huge Russian propaganda campaign which has branded Naftogaz and Ukraine's political elite as untrustworthy, irresponsible and even criminal is driven not only by geopolitical motivations. The price of gas which has been kept artificially low in the former Soviet republics - and in Russia too - simply cannot be maintained."
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More from the press review on the subject » International Relations, » Energy, » Ukraine, » Russia
Ágnes Gereben on Putin's Belarus strategy
Historian Ágnes Gereben considers what motivations might lie behind the ongoing energy dispute between Moscow and Minsk. "The people in Belarus don't consider themselves to be a sovereign nation. They let others do with them as they please. They have suffered a lot, starting with the brutalities of World War II, up to the catastrophe of Chernobyl. Lukashenko weeded out opposition and freedom of opinion long ago. But as soon as this tyrant, an admirer of Hitler and Stalin, can't give his obedient subjects anything to eat any more, he will lose his power." In that case, Belarus might realign itself with Russia again, Gereben goes on to speculate: "The Russian constitution does not allow Putin to run for president again in 2008. But if a new state emerged out of the unification of Russia and Belarus, then Putin could become president of this new country. Granted, it would be difficult for Russia to carry off such a fusion, for political, economic and social reasons - not to mention that it would severely damage its international prestige. Still, we in Central Europe may think of this as sheer folly, but it is a well-considered folly."
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