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...Koka's murder on April 22 was the fifth in recent months of a member of Hungary's 600,000-strong Roma community. Hungarian police believe that a small group of killers is targeting Roma, who are also known as gypsies and remain one of the most marginalized and neglected groups in Europe. (Read: "Child Migrants on Hunger Strike...
...Hungarian National Police High Commissioner Jozsef Bencze says he has 100 investigators working the case, and has set up a response network so police can lock down any area in Hungary within five minutes of receiving word of a new attack. Police have also announced a reward worth $231,000 for information resulting in an arrest in any of the murders. "The noose is tightening around these perpetrators," he told TIME...
That’s because Galicia of the Austro-Hungarian Empire, now a region split between Poland and Ukraine, is not exactly known for its oil reserves. By 2005, careful research and writing turned the question into an award-winning book, “Oil Empire: Visions of Prosperity in Austrian Galicia.” She discovered that an oil boom had occurred in Galicia during the 19th century, but overeager extraction of the resource spurred by a lack of government regulation led to a shortage of oil in the empire by World...
...orchestra recovered slightly during the piece’s variations on the Shaker theme “Simple Gifts,” which Sung executed with animation and drive.If any piece could have pulled the BSO out of a string of three mediocre performances in one night, it was Hungarian composer Bela Bartok’s Suite from “The Miraculous Mandarin,” a musical vortex of discordant chords and pointed rhythms that the BSO executed with gripping prowess. The orchestra came out in full force, with the string section effortlessly running up and down scales...
Brady says he doesn't think Rozsa wanted to kill Morales. But Rozsa's dramatic end seemed to cap off a turbulent life. Born in 1960 to a Bolivian mother and a Hungarian Jewish father, Rozsa left Bolivia at an early age, living in Chile and then Sweden. He moved on to Hungary, where he finished college and held several odd jobs, including, according to Hungarian newspaper reports, becoming the translator for international terrorist Carlos the Jackal. In 1991, Rozsa turned to journalism and arrived to cover the Balkans War for the BBC World Service and a Spanish newspaper...