"It's A Knockdown For Pro-Russian Forces."

Two anti-European impulses simultaneously lost in Hungary.

Hungary's parliamentary elections are being won by Peter Magyar's Tisza party, which has already been congratulated by European colleagues. It should get 138 seats in parliament, the party "Fidesz" Viktor Orban - 55 seats. What does this mean for Putin?

For commentary, the Charter97.org website turned to Vladimir Fesenko, a well-known Ukrainian political scientist and head of the Penta Center for Applied Political Research:

- One of Putin's main trump cards has been knocked out. Without Orban, Slovak Prime Minister Fitzo will not be able to act so actively against the European Union.

Orban was the consolidator of anti-European forces in the European Parliament, in the European Union. And now the position of this right-populist camp has been weakened. I repeat, Putin supported Orban, maybe not as publicly as Trump, but there was support through Russian political technologists. There were a number of publications about it. In Russia, by the way, they wrote a lot about it. Russian special services supported Orban.

These provocations, which were with Ukrainian cash collectors, the provocation with the alleged attempt to undermine the gas pipeline that leads from Serbia to Ukraine, this clearly took place with the help and participation of Russian special services. So there's no doubt that Putin lost this election. Another thing is that, of course, he will not stop his anti-European policy.

Now he does not have such a strong trump card in his hands as Orban, but he will still try to act, betting on the same right-populists, as well as on the radical left. Putin will play through polarization in Europe by supporting right-wing anti-European populists at the same time. Of course, Putin will continue his fight against a united Europe. Here, by the way, his positions coincided with Trump's. The fact that these two anti-European impulses lost in Hungary at the same time is, in my opinion, very important. At least for a while, but the anti-European camp in Europe will be knocked out, I would say. It is not a knockout, not a total defeat, temporary, maybe. But nevertheless, it is a very important result, which will stop the anti-European forces at least for a while and weaken their influence.

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