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Hungarian Spectrum tries to explain why the Hungarian socialist party has failed in its centrist “Third way” policy, inspired by the US Clinton administration and Britain's Tony Blair.

Hungarian Spectrum writes about János Kádár, the Hungarian leader after the 1956 uprising, who has now been dead for 20 years.

Hungarian Spectrum reports on a demonstration of the right wing Hungarian Guard movement.

Pestiside.hu reports on the legalization of gay marriage in Hungary.

Hungarian Spectrum writes about the 1989 opening of the Austro-Hungarian border, eventually leading to the rise of the Iron Curtain, dividing Eastern and Western Europe.

A Step At A Time draws attention to the launch of a website dedicated to the victims of communism worldwide, by the Global Museum on Communism.

Balkans via Bohemia looks at how the events in Iran “would play out vis a vis other successful and unsuccessful revolutions in the past two decades,” including those in Serbia, Czechoslovakia, Ukraine and China.

Hungarian Spectrum writes about “the Hungarian right after the EU elections.”

One more view on the European Parliament election in Central and Eastern Europe - from the Economist's Edward Lucas.