The Kremlin Is Preparing For Orban's Loss
4- 10.04.2026, 14:33
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Russia will blame the Hungarian prime minister himself for the failure.
Moscow admits that Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor Orban's Fidesz party will lose the parliamentary elections to be held on Sunday, April 12.
Russia's "Meduza" citing two sources close to the political bloc of the presidential administration (AP).
According to one interlocutor, the expectation that Orban and his political technologists would be able to turn the situation around and win the elections on party lists was initially present. Then victory in single-mandate districts became an acceptable scenario.
"Now [the Kremlin] admits that this will not happen either," the source said.
The publication's interlocutor and a technologist working with the Kremlin said that the possible defeat of Orban's party would be dubbed in the Russian government-controlled media as a "color revolution" implemented by the European Union.
At the same time, for Russian dictator Vladimir Putin, Orban himself and members of his team would be made to blame for the failure.