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Gavin Lee speaks with Szabolcs Panyi, VSquare’s Budapest-based lead investigative editor in charge of Central European investigations, and an investigative journalist at Direkt36. Panyi’s reporting on alleged ties between Hungary’s political leadership and Russian state actors led to an unprecedented reaction: Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor Orban publicly accused him of espionage.

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