Russian intelligence operatives proposed staging an assassination attempt on Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor Orbán to reshape the country’s election campaign, according to The Washington Post on March 21.

The newspaper reported that the proposal appeared in an internal document from Russia’s foreign intelligence service, the SVR, which was obtained and authenticated by a European intelligence service.

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      Yeah sounds familiar.

      Something… shots… something … a piece of ear… Something… and suddenly… nothing was missing?!

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    The report noted […] that Russian officials viewed the race as a high-stakes contest for Moscow’s influence inside both NATO and the European Union.