RUSSIA PERSPECTIVE

Moscow records the event with cold precision: state media report that 'Peter Magyar, leader of the Tisza party, was elected Prime Minister at the first session of the National Assembly. 140 votes in favour, 54 against, 1 abstention.' No editorial comment, no dramatisation. But a second article documents Magyar's first political act: the call for Sulyok's resignation. This is where the Russian framing gently engages: Magyar describes Sulyok as having 'covered up the Orbán government's wrongdoings' — a formulation that allows TASS to present Magyar as an actor of political revenge rather than institutional reform. The real strategic loss for Moscow is clear: Orbán was the only EU member state leader maintaining open dialogue with Putin. That intra-European communication channel will no longer exist with Magyar.