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After the spy bank, another mysterious Russian organisation appeared in Budapest
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In the fifth district of the Hungarian capital, a Russian institute, IRIAS, has emerged. The organisation enjoys special privileges just like the Russian spy bank.
Another privileged Russian institute
The International Investment Bank moves its headquarters from Budapest to Russia. This follows Hungary’s withdrawal from the organisation, known as the spy bank, which enjoys diplomatic immunity, as the United States of America imposed sanctions on the institution’s leaders.
But now another institute with a Russian background has come to Budapest. The Russian IRIAS organisation was registered in Hungary after the war in Ukraine broke out. Its headquarters are on the first floor of a multi-storey apartment building. The lower floor of the building sells food products, run by Igor Kaplan, who once did military service in Hungary.
The Hungarian managing director of IRIAS, Bernadett Deák from Debrecen, did reply to the inquiries of 24.hu. Public company records reveal little information. Its main profile is given as “other community and social activities not elsewhere classified”. Other activities include publishing and news agency activities, technical research and development, beverage service and fuel wholesaling.
Sound like its time for a new IRIAS agreement with no special privileges.
Op hun website staan EADS (European Aeronautical Defense and Space Company) ,Siemens,Airbus, Globethics als partners om er maar enkele te noemen!
Is het niet merkwaardig dat EADS partner is? Misschien moest Daily News eens wat dieper graven in de actuele stand van zaken van IRIAS en de op zijn minst merkwaardige partners??!!
International agreements, again – where we (Hungary) assumes obligations.
http://mniipu.org/en/management-history/
So to answer Hugo’s question – there was cooperation in the past, and not in any way strange given it’s stated activity and how the Russian Federation emerged from the ashes of the Soviet Union.
However, with Russia attacking it’s neighbor and everything that has happened since, I very much doubt there’s any current cooperation. At all. Regardless of what a website says.
Which does beg the question – what is IRIAS currently doing?
Beste Norbert,dan zijn het Westen en de VS op kop hypocriet!? Waarom flikkeren ze dan de Russen niet uit ISS? Gewoon omdat de Russen ervoor zorgen dat ISS in de correcte baan blijft draaien?!
@Hugo – if life were only so simple. Some relationships are very complex and difficult to untangle.
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Igor Kaplan is an active Putin supporter, extremely aggresive individual . He is from Jewish-Russian clan and he shares aggressive comments in Facebook group Russians in Budapest against Ukrainians.