The Guardian learned about the development in the United States of sanctions against Orban's entourage

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The US Congress is working on a draft sanctions against leading Hungarian politicians who are associated with Prime Minister Viktor Orban's Fidesz party, The Guardian writes, citing sources.

According to the publication, a group of Republicans and Democrats has been developing restrictions since last year, they may affect former officials and supporters of the Hungarian government. The bill could be submitted to Congress as early as next month. Interlocutors of The Guardian suggest that he will receive wide support.

On April 12, the local online publication 444 reported on possible sanctions against "influential persons" in Hungary. On the same day, US Ambassador to Hungary David Pressman announced sanctions against the Budapest-based International Investment Bank and three of its leaders, two Russians and one Hungarian. After that, Hungary decided to withdraw from the financial institution, writes Vilaggazdazag.

Relations between Hungary and the United States have recently been tense. In February, Orban listed the US administration as one of his political opponents because it represents one of the "pro-war interest groups." In his opinion, Washington "imposes its interests on Brussels to the detriment of European ones," which is expressed, among other things, in sanctions that negatively affected Europe, but did not affect the United States. On April 14, Orban said that Budapest is trying to cooperate with Washington and considers it an ally, but when Democrats are in power in the United States, relations between the two countries become more complicated.

In March, US President Joe Biden excluded Hungary and Turkey from the list of invitees to the summit of democracies (Washington fears that both countries have begun to move away from democracy, they also opposed Finland and Sweden joining NATO), Foreign Policy notes. In addition, writes Euroaktiv, Ambassador Pressman criticized the rapprochement between Budapest and Moscow.

This week, Hungarian Foreign Minister Peter Szijjarto visited the Russian capital and agreed on the supply of energy resources. At the same time, the EU as a whole almost abandoned the purchase of Russian oil and gas and announced the overcoming of energy dependence on Moscow.

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