Daily Memo: Orban’s Trip to Russia, Turkey in the Middle

Hungary and Turkey see opportunities to work both sides in the U.S.-Russia standoff.

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Peace mission. Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor Orban was in Moscow on Tuesday for a meeting with Russian President Vladimir Putin. They discussed the possibility of Russia increasing natural gas deliveries to Hungary, and Putin touted the fact that trade turnover between the two countries increased by 30 percent in the first 11 months of 2021. […]

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