{"id":220185,"date":"2026-09-08T19:20:18","date_gmt":"2026-09-08T19:20:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/people\/220185\/"},"modified":"2026-09-08T19:20:18","modified_gmt":"2026-09-08T19:20:18","slug":"hungary-orders-10-russian-diplomats-to-leave","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/people\/220185\/","title":{"rendered":"Hungary Orders 10 Russian Diplomats to Leave"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>TEMPO.CO, Jakarta &#8211;\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/en.tempo.co\/tag\/hungary\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Hungary<\/a> has ordered 10 members of <a href=\"https:\/\/en.tempo.co\/tag\/russia\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Russia<\/a>&#8216;s diplomatic mission to leave the country over activities it said were incompatible with their diplomatic status, Foreign Minister Anita Orban said on Tuesday.<\/p>\n<p>The move marks a significant step by Budapest against Moscow, with Orban saying it was intended to protect Hungary&#8217;s &#8220;security and sovereignty.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Why is Hungary expelling the diplomats?<\/p>\n<p>Orban said a Hungarian Foreign Ministry official had informed the Russian ambassador that the 10 individuals had engaged in activities deemed &#8220;unacceptable for diplomats under the Vienna Convention.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>She did not specify what the individuals were accused of doing.<\/p>\n<p>Hungary&#8217;s authorities had made the assessment before the government called on them to leave, Orban said.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;This decision protects Hungary&#8217;s security and sovereignty,&#8221; she wrote.<\/p>\n<p>Does this mean a break with Russia?<\/p>\n<p>Orban stressed that Hungary was not severing diplomatic relations with Moscow.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;It does not imply breaking off diplomatic relations with Russia,&#8221; she said, adding that Budapest intended to maintain &#8220;the necessary dialogue, based on mutual respect and adherence to the rules.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Orban has served as Hungary&#8217;s foreign minister and deputy prime minister since May, following the change of government under Prime Minister Peter Magyar.<\/p>\n<p>The expulsion is nevertheless a notable deterioration in relations with Moscow, particularly given Hungary&#8217;s previously close relationship with Russia under former Prime Minister Viktor Orban.<\/p>\n<p>Read: <a href=\"https:\/\/en.tempo.co\/read\/2119168\/russia-says-it-is-closing-german-consulate-in-st-petersburg\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Russia Says It Is Closing German Consulate in St. Petersburg<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/news.google.com\/search?q=tempo&amp;hl=en-ID&amp;gl=ID&amp;ceid=ID%3Aen\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Click here<\/a> to get the latest news updates from Tempo on Google News<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"TEMPO.CO, Jakarta &#8211;\u00a0Hungary has ordered 10 members of Russia&#8216;s diplomatic mission to leave the country over activities it&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":220186,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_share_on_mastodon":"0"},"categories":[132],"tags":[26814,422,329,350],"class_list":["post-220185","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-viktor-orban","tag-diplomat","tag-hungary","tag-russia","tag-viktor-orban"],"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@people\/117237043918795185","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/people\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/220185","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/people\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/people\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/people\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/people\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=220185"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/people\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/220185\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/people\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/220186"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/people\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=220185"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/people\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=220185"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/people\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=220185"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}