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Petőfi Prize
The Petőfi Prize was established by the Public Foundation for the Research of Central and Eastern European History and Society in 2009 recognizes outstanding efforts made to advance freedom and democracy of Central European nations. MOL Group (Hungarian Oil and Gas Public Limited Company) has joined the foundation. The founders intend to reward those who have made the noblest and gravest decisions of human coexistence without making compromises by a bust and a sum of EUR 10.000. Description The Public Foundation for the Research of Central and Eastern European History and Society established the Petőfi Prize in 2009 to acknowledge the outstanding efforts made to advance freedom and democracy of Central European nations. This prize is awarded to those outstanding people of the region or the whole world who have set an example and helped freedom to advance with their personal sacrifice and persistence. The founders wish to recognize and honour those people who, similarly to Pető ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
MOL Group
MOL Plc. (), also known as MOL Group, is a Hungarian Multinational corporation, multinational petroleum, oil and natural gas, gas company headquartered in Budapest, Hungary. Members of MOL Group include among others the Croatian and Slovak formerly state-owned oil and gas companies, INA d.d., INA and Slovnaft. MOL is Hungary's most profitable enterprise, with net profits of $770 million in 2019. The company is also the third most valuable company in Central and Eastern Europe and placed 402 on the Fortune Global 500 list of the world's largest companies in 2013. As of October 2021, the largest shareholder is the Mol New Europe Foundation with 10.49% ahead of Maecenas Universitatis Corvini Foundation and Mathias Corvinus Collegium Foundation, both with 10%, OmanOil Budapest with 7.14% and OTP and ING Bank with 4.9% and 4.48% respectively. Nearly 45% of shares are Public float, free floated. MOL is active in Hydrocarbon exploration, exploration and Extraction of petroleum, product ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
László Balás-Piri
László () is a Hungarian male given name and surname after the King-Knight Saint Ladislaus I of Hungary (1077–1095). It derives from Ladislav, a variant of Vladislav. The name has a history of being frequently anglicized as Leslie. It is the most common male name among the whole Hungarian male population since 2003. People with this name are listed below by field. Given name Science and mathematics * László Babai (b. 1950), Hungarian-born American mathematician and computer scientist * László Lovász (b. 1948), Hungarian mathematician * László Fejes Tóth (1915–2005), Hungarian mathematician * László Fuchs (b. 1924), Hungarian-American mathematician * László Rátz (1863–1930), influential Hungarian mathematics high school teacher * László Tisza (1907–2009), Professor of Physics Emeritus at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology * László Mérő (b. 1949), Hungarian research psychologist and science author Politics and the military * László Almásy (p ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Awards Established In 2009
An award, sometimes called a distinction, is given to a recipient as a token of recognition of excellence in a certain field. When the token is a medal, ribbon or other item designed for wearing, it is known as a decoration. An award may be described by three aspects: 1) to whom it is given to 2) what 3) by whom, all varying according to purpose. The recipient is often awarded to an individual, a student, athlete or representative of a group of people, be it an organisation, a sports team or a whole country. The award item may be a decoration or an insignia suitable for wearing, such as a medal, badge, award pin or rosette. It can also be a token object such as a certificate, diploma, championship belt, trophy or plaque. The award may also be accompanied by a title of honor, and an object of direct cash value, such as prize money or a scholarship. Furthermore, an is an award given, typically in education, that does not confer the recipient(s) a higher standing but is co ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Gabriel Andreescu
Gabriel Andreescu is a Romanian human rights activist and political scientist born on 8 April 1952 in Buzău. He is one of the few Romanian dissidents who openly opposed Nicolae Ceaușescu and the Communist regime in Romania. At present, he is professor in the Department of Political Science at the National School for Political Studies and Public Administration (SNSPA) in Bucharest, and an active member of several Romanian human rights organizations. He is also a prodigious journalist, writing and lecturing on topics such as multiculturalism, national minorities, religious freedom, and secularism, the ethics and politics of memory and others. He is editor of the Romanian-language ''New Journal of Human Rights'' (''Noua Revista de Drepturile Omului'', formerly ''Revista Romana de Drepturile Omului''). Biography Andreescu attended the Bogdan Petriceicu Hasdeu High School in his hometown, then obtained a BA in Physics from the University of Bucharest. He taught high school physics ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
László Tőkés
László Tőkés ( ; born 1 April 1952) is an ethnically Hungarian pastor and politician from Romania. He was a Member of the European Parliament (MEP) from 2007 to 2019. Tőkés served as a Vice-President of the European Parliament from 2010 to 2012. A bishop of the Reformed Diocese of Királyhágómellék of the Reformed Church in Romania, he is also a former honorary president of the Democratic Alliance of Hungarians in Romania. An effort to transfer Tőkés from his post as an assistant pastor in Timișoara and to evict him from his church flat helped trigger the Romanian Revolution, which overthrew Nicolae Ceaușescu and spelled the end of communism in Romania. Tőkés is the head of the Hungarian National Council of Transylvania, a civic organisation for Transylvanian Hungarians. He is closely associated with the Hungarian People's Party of Transylvania (PPMT), but not a member of it. He is a member of the Reconciliation of European Histories Group, and co-sponsored t ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Anne Applebaum
Anne Elizabeth Applebaum (born July 25, 1964) is an American journalist and historian. She has written about the history of Communism and the development of civil society in Central and Eastern Europe. She holds Polish citizenship as well. Applebaum has worked at ''The Economist'' and ''The Spectator'' magazines, and she was a member of the editorial board of ''The Washington Post'' (2002–2006). She won the Pulitzer Prize for General Nonfiction in 2004 for '' Gulag: A History''. She is a staff writer for ''The Atlantic'' magazine, as well as a senior fellow of the Agora Institute and the School of Advanced International Studies at Johns Hopkins University . Early life and education Applebaum was born in Washington, D.C. to a reform Jewish family, the eldest of three daughters of Harvey M. and Elizabeth Applebaum. Her father, a Yale alumnus, is senior counsel in the antitrust and international trade practices at Covington & Burling. Her mother was a program coordinator at th ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Mart Laar
Mart Laar (born 22 April 1960) is an Estonian politician and historian. He served as the Prime Minister of Estonia from 1992 to 1994 and from 1999 to 2002. Laar is credited with having helped bring about Estonia's Economy_of_Estonia#Restoration_of_independence,_modernisation_and_liberalisation, rapid economic development during the 1990s. He is a member of the centre-right Isamaa party. In April 2011, Mart Laar became Minister of Defence (Estonia), Minister of Defence in the cabinet of Prime Minister Andrus Ansip and served until his resignation for reasons of health in May 2012. In April 2013, Riigikogu appointed Laar as chairman of the supervisory board of the Bank of Estonia, his term beginning on 12 June 2013. Career Mart Laar was born in Viljandi. He studied history at the University of Tartu, graduating in 1983; he received his master's degree in philosophy and his doctorate in history in 2005. Laar taught history in Tallinn, and served as president of the Council of Hist ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Heti Válasz
''Heti Válasz'' () is a conservative online publication in Hungary. History and profile ''Heti Válasz'' was established in 2001. It is published weekly on Thursdays and is headquartered in Budapest. The magazine covers news on politics, economy and culture, and has a conservative stance. Since its inception the magazine has had different owners. In 2010 the owners was a joint venture which is established by a Hungarian media entrepreneur and politician, Tamás Fellegi, and a Danish venture capital firm, DEFAP. ''Heti Válasz'' has a conservative stance. The editor-in-chief of the weekly, Gábor Borokai was the previous press spokesperson for Fidesz leader Viktor Orbán Viktor Mihály Orbán (; born 31 May 1963) is a Hungarian lawyer and politician who has been the 56th prime minister of Hungary since 2010, previously holding the office from 1998 to 2002. He has also led the Fidesz political party since 200 ... between 1998 and 2002. In the fourth quarter of 2009 ' ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Miroslav Kusý
Miroslav Kusý (1 December 1931 – 13 February 2019) was a Slovak political scientist and politician. Described as a "dissident" of Czechoslovakia's communist regime, he was given an eight-month suspended sentence in November 1989 for an anti-government protest. After the Velvet Revolution, Kusý was appointed as chairman of the Federal Press and Information Office of Czechoslovakia. After politics, Kusý became a professor in political science. He died on 13 February 2019, at age of 87 from heart failure Heart failure (HF), also known as congestive heart failure (CHF), is a syndrome caused by an impairment in the heart's ability to Cardiac cycle, fill with and pump blood. Although symptoms vary based on which side of the heart is affected, HF .... References 1931 births 2019 deaths Charter 77 signatories Politicians from Bratislava Recipients of the Order of Tomáš Garrigue Masaryk People of the Velvet Revolution Slovak political scientists {{Slovakia- ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Vladimir Bukovsky
Vladimir Konstantinovich Bukovsky (; 30 December 1942 – 27 October 2019) was a Soviet and Russian Human rights activists, human rights activist and writer. From the late 1950s to the mid-1970s, he was a prominent figure in the Soviet dissidents, Soviet dissident movement, well known at home and abroad. He spent a total of twelve years in the Political abuse of psychiatry in the Soviet Union, psychiatric prison-hospitals, Gulag, labour camps, and prisons of the Soviet Union during History of the Soviet Union (1964–1982), Brezhnev's rule. After being expelled from the Soviet Union in late 1976, Bukovsky remained in Soviet dissidents, vocal opposition to the Politics of the Soviet Union, Soviet system and the shortcomings of its Politics of Russia, successor regimes in Russia. An activist, a writer, Jacket and a neurophysiologist,. he is celebrated for his part in the campaign to expose and halt the political abuse of psychiatry in the Soviet Union. A member of the internati ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Mária Filep
Mária Filep is a Hungarian architect and main organizer of the Pan-European Picnic. Early life Mária Filep was born in Debrecen in 1953. She completed her degree in architecture at the University of Debrecen. Career She worked at the Hajdú County State Construction Company as an architectural engineer. She was the founding member of the Hungarian Democratic Forum in Debrecen, the first opposition organization in the town. The members gathered in pubs and restaurants at weekends. Pan-European Picnic The idea of a Pan-European Picnic came up at one of these gatherings on 30 June 1989 in the garden of Old Vigadó Restaurant. Subsequently Filep started organizing it with a few colleagues. She risked her job and her freedom. Even though her employers suspected something was going on they did not ask questions. At first she found little support. The Roundtable Talks of Debrecen and the Hungarian Democratic Forum (MDF) rejected her overtures as unprofessional. ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Imre Kozma
Imre Kozma (4 June 1940 – 17 October 2024) was a Hungarian Roman Catholic priest, the founder of the Hungarian Charity Service of the Sovereign Military Order of Malta, patron of East German refugees arriving to Hungary in 1988–89. Biography Imre Kozma was born in 1940 in Győrzámoly. His father died in a train accident in 1941 and he was raised by his mother and grandmother. He completed his secondary education in 1958 at Czuczor Gergely Benedictine Secondary School. Subsequently he studied theology at the Esztergom Seminary. He was ordained as a priest in 1963; first he became the curate of Tát and Dorog, then he served at the Holy Family Parish in Zugliget (Budapest) from 1966 to 1968. He served at the Church of Saint Peter of Alcantara, better known as the Franciscan Church of Pest from 1968 until 1977. Subsequently he returned to Zugliget, where he arranged a regular youth and family pastoral care. He organized an unprecedented system of charitable activities in the ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
