Hungary's New Visa Program Imports Russian Spies... And More.

In the normal course of things, adjustments to Hungarian visa programs would be pretty far down the list of things that this channel might cover, somewhere alongside other non-war-related items like Celebrity Gossip or Insights into Regional Cheese Manufacturing, but of course, things are not normal in Europe.

For the first time since 1945, a gigantic land war is raging on the continent. Mysterious acts of sabotage targeted in countries backing Ukraine.

Along the Finnish and Polish borders, large groups of migrants are being weapon ized by Belarus and Russia. From Brussels to Bucharest, nerves are, frankly, on edge. So, when Hungary quietly updated an obscure immigration program to allow in tens of thousands of Russians and fellow Russians, it naturally set off alarms.