Authoritarian Influence

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2026-09-16

Mapping the future of political disinformation in Europe

Executive summary
2025-05-15

The draft of the new regime defense law further erodes Hungary's sovereignty

Press release
2025-02-18

Cracks in the façade of Europe’s right-wing unity

Voting patterns, tactics and divisions among non-mainstream parties in the 10th European Parliament
2024-12-12

Disinformation and Conspiracy Beliefs in East-Central Europe HDMO-CEDMO-BROD Survey

Analysis
2024-09-26

Democratic Russia – A utopia?

Lecture
2024-09-26

Attitudes Towards Foreign Policy and Authoritarian Superpowers, Impact of Disinformation, Polarization and Tribalism

Presentation

2024-09-17

Growing influence of Russia and China in the new European Parliament?

An analysis of the votes of radical right, far-right and far-left parties on Russia and China in the European Parliament
2024-07-10

Trolling to weaken the EU while winking at Trump: the first week of Hungary's rotating EU presidency

Analysis
2024-05-23

MEPs from Central Europe: A bulwark against authoritarianism

Study
2023-12-20

Media hegemony and exporting disinformation across the border

The Orbán regime’s influence on Hungarian minorities’ public discourses in Romania, Serbia, Slovakia and Ukraine
2023-12-14

Challenges of Strategic Communication in Hungary

Research summary
2023-11-30

Factual relativism and distrust of news sources among the Hungarian public

Study
2023-04-12

Has the peace fight won? - Weekly analysis of the domestic spread of pro-Kremlin war narratives

Weekly monitoring of pro-Kremlin disinformation on the war against Ukraine
2022-12-19

Punching above its weight? - The building of Hungarian political influence

Aims, instruments, actors, results
2022-12-05

Half of Fidesz voters believe government did not vote for sanctions

Summary of research regarding attitudes about Russia-Ukraine war
2022-10-28

The Kremlin’s troll network never sleeps

Research summary
2022-07-22

Anti-gender and anti-LGBTQI mobilisation in Hungary: evolution, actors, networks

In our research, we investigated the mobilisation's driving forces, evolution, domestic actors and their international connections
2022-06-30

The anti-gender and anti-LGBTQI mobilisation in Hungary and Poland

Similar tendencies and significant differences can be observed in Hungary and Poland at the same time.
2022-05-24

Hidden malign domestic and foreign “grey zone” media influence in the Czech, Hungarian and Serbian election campaigns

Media research
2022-05-05

“Online trolls” are alive and well in the V4

Research summary
2022-02-02

Five points on the 11th (or, taking 2009 into account, the 12th) Orbán-Putin meeting

Analysis
2022-01-10

This is how the Russian press sees Hungary and the Hungarian government

Press release
2021-11-09

COVID-9.11: The transformation and anti-West radicalization of the Hungarian antivax movement

Political Capital's study
2021-10-14

The European Parliament’s left-wing cannot let the Cuban regime go

Flash Report
2021-09-24

Budapest Forum (16-17/09/2021)

On September 16-17, 2021, Budapest Municipality, Political Capital, and CEU Democracy Institute held the inaugural Budapest Forum for Building Sustainable Democracies, intending to establish a new annual event.
2021-09-22

Sister cities: Wolf warrior diplomacy in a sheep’s clothing

Budapest Forum panel summary
2021-09-20

Disinformation Resilience Index 2021

Analysis

2021-08-03

Globsec Trends 2021

Research report
2021-07-14

The Specter of Authoritarian Regimes is Haunting Europe

Summary

2021-07-06

"The first step should be the termination of the Paks contract."

Interview
2021-06-29

"The Austro-Hungarian Monarchy had common Foreign-, Defense- and Finance Ministries. It is frustrating that European integration is not there yet 150 years later."

Interview
2021-06-24

"The precondition of a common EU foreign policy is that each European citizen could identify themselves with it."

Interview
2021-06-18

Foreign policy ideas of the opposition prime ministerial candidates

Interview
2021-06-09

"Today, not a single EU member state can represent its interests alone”

Interview
2021-06-04

“Huawei is such a large national security threat that is simply not offset by the low price of its 5G network”

Interview
2021-06-02

“I would make the EU and Hungary stronger on the global scene”

Interview
2021-05-25

The Kremlin’s Financial Octopus in Hungary – The International Investment Bank and Strategic Power Projection in Central-Eastern Europe

Report analysis
2021-03-25

Russian influence in Hungary: The case of Paks 2 and the Kremlin’s influence – seeking efforts through nuclear energy

Report analysis
2021-02-26

The European Parliament would strike against Putin, but some member states remain reluctant

Political Capital's Flash Report
2021-01-27

The EU-China trade agreement is ‘unacceptable’ in its current form

Interview with Attila Ara-Kovács
2020-10-09

Visualising Influence

Information bubbles and ideological proximities on Czech, Hungarian and Slovak Facebook
2020-09-29

Foreign Authoritarian Influence in the Western Balkans

Research on the nature and the degree of authoritarian influence in the Western Balkan region
2020-09-03

Authoritarian shadows in the European Union

Influence of authoritarian third countries on EU institutions
2020-04-18

Anne Applebaum on the Post-Pandemic Global Order

A conversation about the pandemic's impact on the democratic world, and the myth that authoritarian states managed to better deal with the consequences of the crisis.
2020-04-08

Quarantine podcasts, Bologna Edition – a discussion with Erik Jones on Italian and EU politics

A podcast about the political and economic situation in Italy, policy responses to the corona crisis, the future of the European integration. Guest: Erik Jones
2020-03-31

Defending critical communication infrastructures against bot and troll armies in Central-Eastern Europe

Conference Summary
2020-03-03

Russian Disinformation and Putin’s “Postmodern Dictatorship”

A discussion with Peter Pomerantsev
2020-02-19

European Parliament: the primary source of immunity to foreign authoritarian influence?

There is a vast majority in the EP for pushing back against authoritarian regimes and their efforts to corrupt democracies throughout the world
2019-12-04

Doors Wide Shut

Russian, Chinese and Turkish authoritarian influence in Hungary, Slovakia and the Czech Republic
2019-11-08

Erdogan’s visit to Budapest: another symbolic meeting

President Recep Tayyip Erdogan visited Budapest on 7 November.
2019-10-30

Orbán-Putin meeting: lots of symbolism, no major development

Flash Report

2019-10-15

Decisions on electoral interference EP: bad and good news for Russia

On 10 October, the European Parliament approved a resolution condemning foreign electoral interference and disinformation in democratic processes with a vast majority. The result of the vote on text, similarly to previous cases, shows that the Kremlin has nowhere near enough friends in the EP to inf
2019-05-20

Investigating Russia’s role and the Kremlin’s interference in the 2019 EP elections

A study by Political Capital and its research partners
2019-04-26

Russian attempts to meddle in the 2019 EP elections

This research project aims to identify the main narratives spread by official Kremlin mouthpieces and local pro-Kremlin media, focusing on how Russia-related issues and EU institutions are depicted
2019-04-10

Russian sharp power in CEE

Political Capital partnered up with Czech and Slovak experts to gain a better understanding of Russian soft and sharp power in the Czech Republic, Hungary and Slovakia.

2019-04-10

Collusion or Homegrown Collaboration?

A study on the connections between German Far Right and Russia
2019-03-14

Mystification and Demystification of Putin’s Russia - Research Summary

Summary of Political Capital's research on how the Hungarian society perceives the Russian Federation’s power potential
2019-03-13

The Russian International Investment Bank is moving to Budapest

The Hungarian National Assembly approved the law on the International Investment Bank’s move to Budapest on 5 March 2019.
2019-03-05

Mystification and Demystification of Vladimir Putin’s Russia - Summary of the conference

Summary of the conference where Political Capital introduced the results of the research „Mystification and Demystification of Vladimir Putin’s Russia”.
2019-02-18

Mystification and Demystification of Vladimir Putin’s Russia

Political Capital's conference
2019-02-12

Russia in Hungarian public opinion

A chapter of Tárki's Social Report 2019 written by Péter Krekó
2018-11-27

How to fight disinformation?

Political Capital’s study explains how Russian disinformation works and the security threats it poses.
2018-09-19

Orbán showcased himself as a mediator between the East and the West in his meeting with Putin in Moscow

Political Capital's Flash Report
2017-12-20

Counter-propaganda does not work

Our interview with Dr. Ylja Yablokov about his upcoming book, entitled Fortress Russia – Conspiracy Theories in Post-Soviet Russia.

2017-10-12

Does Russia interfere in Czech, Austrian and Hungarian elections?

Our analysis sums up the Kremlin’s meddling possibilities in the CEE region
2017-08-29

Putin in Hungary: Strategic negotiations dressed up as sports diplomacy

Flash Report on Putin’s visit.
2017-04-28

The activity of pro-Russian extremist groups in Central-Eastern Europe

The year-long regional research project commissioned by Political Capital, covering Austria, the Czech Republic, Slovakia, Hungary, and Poland focuses mainly on the violent ramifications of Russia’s regional influence.
2017-04-11

Vulnerability Index

How vulnerable are the Visegrad four societies to subversive foreign influence?
2017-03-10

Russia and Europe are facing a civilizational divorce

Our interview with Jānis Bērziņš, the director of the Center for Security and Strategic Research in Riga.
2017-02-03

Orbán continues to follow Putin’s path

Russian President Vladimir Putin’s visit on 2 February to Budapest indicates there is a strategic alliance between the two sides, which aims to strengthen „internal opposition” within the European Union trying to cancel sanctions against Russia and weaken European integration.
2017-01-19

Populism and Russian influence in Europe

The joint study of the Washington-based American Enterprise Institute and Political Capital examined the driving forces behind European populism and Russian influence exerted on the main political forces.
2016-12-25

Russian disinformation in Central and Eastern Europe

V4 countries are among the main targets of the Kremlin's disinformation campaigns. To demonstrate this, Political Capital, Globsec Policy Institute and the European Values Think Tank launched the bi-weekly Kremlin Watch, which brings the public's attention to Russian propaganda.
2016-11-04

Far-right murder of Hungarian police officer: pro-Russian radicalization in the CEE

The recent murder of a Hungarian police officer by a far-right paramilitary leader in Hungary shed light on the continuing radicalization and destabilization of the region by Russia.
2016-11-04

Russia and the European Far Left

While populist radical right parties in Europe and their connections to Russia are frequently discussed, much less attention is dedicated to the radical left side of the spectrum. This study tries to fill this gap by providing an overview of the political successes of radical left parties.
2016-08-10

The Weaponization of Culture: Kremlin’s traditional agenda and the export of values to Central Europe

Political Capital’s most recent study explores the topic of Russian soft power in Hungary, Slovakia, the Czech Republic, Poland and Austria.
2016-02-19

What the V4 is not unified in: the relationship with Russia

The Prague summit of the leaders of the Visegrad countries on 15 February and the meeting of the European Council on the 18-19 put the coordinated stance of the V4-group into the spotlight again.
2015-12-22

The Kremlin connections of the European far-right

Political Capital Institute has decided to launch a series of publications in order to analyze the pro-Russian standpoint and behavior of far-right actors in various member states more deeply. The first four elements of the series deal with Hungary, Slovakia, France and Greece.
2015-12-13

Marching towards Eurasia

The Kremlin connections of the Slovak far-right
2015-04-14

"I am Eurasian" - The Kremlin connections of the Hungarian far-right

Political Capital's study on Kremlin's connections to the Hungarian far-right.
2014-10-15

Putin’s Trojan Horses

Russian influence on the European radical scene
2014-03-14

The Russian Connection

An analysis on the spread of pro-Russian policies on the European far right
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