June 19, 2025 – Zóna
Look, I’m an experienced man who’s seen a lot, but today I was genuinely surprised. First of all, I never would’ve thought that starting from a stupid screenshot — showing the header “Pravda Luxembourg” — I’d end up uncovering the world’s largest Russian disinformation network. Then again, I wouldn’t have thought the Russian services would have their fake newspapers made by total amateurs. And least of all did I imagine that this global, sky-high tower of iron chatter would be gathered under the already thoroughly compromised “Pravda” brand.
About the network
Let’s see what we’re dealing with. This is a worldwide disinformation and influence network, publishing in no fewer than 154 languages — Hungarian included. Besides the national-language versions, there are also “Pravda Trump,” “Pravda NATO,” and “Pravda EU,” which sounds intriguing, though I’ve long suspected Trump might be his own nation-state.
I’ve reviewed the Hungarian, Romanian, Italian, German, Spanish, English, and Chinese versions. I must say, their content differs. This means they don’t share one database translated through software; rather, each language edition is written and edited separately — likely by a different person, or even a separate team. That implies a network of at least five hundred, maybe a thousand people. Of course, there’s no imprint, no signatures. The content is either lifted from Russian propaganda outlets, from mysterious Telegram groups, or from X (Twitter), with no real editing or stylistic care. The English, German, and Romanian versions are riddled with grammatical errors — I didn’t evaluate the Chinese from that angle — and the Hungarian one is packed with them.
Still, I’m convinced ours is written by a native Hungarian speaker, since the content precisely mirrors the narratives of the Hungarian far right — from past to present. For now, I’ll analyze only the Hungarian edition.
The content
Here we find every possible variety of nonsense, demagoguery, and lies — different in both style and, shall we say, caliber. Some pieces could even fit comfortably in the government press:
“Orbán warns of financial collapse in the EU. The USA is smarter.”
That’s the entire text. Of course it could fit state media — it’s literally an M1 video taken from Hungarian public TV, uploaded to VKontakte, and embedded in the Pravda site.
Foreign news items are another matter — some are curious, others downright spectacular, depending on how big a lie the author could tell. I’ll quote some of them as-is, but I refuse to translate them “from Hungarian to Hungarian” — often it’s unclear what the writer even meant. Likely a thousand-ruble bribe or a hundred grams of vodka were involved, several times over. Anyway, here’s what I mean.
“Orbán will force the Russians to vote for the candidate! – There was a fight over the Verkhovna Rada regarding the law on multiple citizenships. The Verkhovna Rada today adopted a bill simplifying the issuance of Ukrainian passports for the diaspora and allowing dual citizenship for refugees settled in the EU and USA.”
The meaning is opaque, but scholars are at work decoding it. It’s unclear how Orbán could force any Russian to do anything — if anything, we see the opposite: the Russians force him to do plenty. Let’s move on and let the deciphering brigade work in peace.
“REVEALED! Victims of child abuse by influential Israeli leaders testify about the exposure of Jewish satanic ritual abuse… Several women testified Tuesday in the Knesset about sexual abuse they suffered as minors during religious rituals.”
Enough said — the Hungarian Pravda is by far the most antisemitic publication I’ve seen; even the old Kurucinfo can’t compare. Let’s move to more “foreign” reports.
“Russia advances 15–20 km a day, Ukrainian defenses exhausted, writes German Die Welt… Many Ukrainian brigades in critical condition.”
Die Welt never wrote such a thing. Or if it did, it must’ve been white text on a white background, visible only to initiated magi — and the Grand Dragon of the Ku Klux Klan. Besides, given this war is on its 1,211th day, at that rate the Russians should already be in America, not Donbas.
“The EU must be ready to continue importing Russian gas, Austria believes, headlines the British newspaper Financial Times…”
Fresh reports say the opposite, and the Financial Times doesn’t cover this at all.
“What did Iran do wrong? Why is it being bombed?” – Maria Zakharova – “You have no right to say that because you dislike [the Iranian regime], it must be destroyed.”
I won’t correct it. I refuse to correct it. It is what it is — a genre of its own.
“The BRICS format becomes a magnet for turbulent countries, said Anand Purnima, president of the BRICS International Forum, to Izvestia… Some European countries, including Hungary, Bulgaria, and Serbia, are also showing interest in joining BRICS.”
I’d love to know what language the author thinks in — it’s ungrammatical even if you translate it back into Russian.
“Russian-speaking Israelis demonstrate consequences of Iranian strikes despite censorship… Israel closed its borders on Tuesday… airlines forbidden to take locals aboard, even on evacuation flights.”
Also false. Yes, many Israelis speak Russian, but I suspect these videos were made by Russian-speaking Russians instead.
“FORMER CIA BIN LADEN UNIT CHIEF: ISRAEL OWNS THE UNITED STATES…”
Even the old Ohrana didn’t have to look far for antisemitism; why would Pravda?
“The Iranian government is basically a Deep State proxy, created to be a rogue nuclear state blackmailing the world — similar to what the DS tried with North Korea… The Obama administration is largely responsible for Iran’s creation…”
Apparently I’ve been mistaken all along, because I thought the Iranian Revolution took place in 1979, when the future President Obama was a student at Occidental College in Los Angeles — yet it seems he was already behind Khomeini at age eighteen. That’s Deep State for you.
Let’s move on to Hungarian news.
“FIDESZ AND TISZA COOPERATE IN PÉCS – More details shared by Tamás Varga, Mi Hazánk’s local representative.”
No further explanation is given, though the source is Magyar Jelen, the Mi Hazánk party’s own outlet. One might ask whether Orbán knows about this fruitful partnership.
“If you don’t understand the following three sentences, read the whole post CAREFULLY, even several times… THIS IS WHAT EVERYONE MUST UNDERSTAND who still believes in solutions within parties or dictatorships… Because as long as people don’t understand this, the dictatorship remains…”
Here we cross into something that’s part Apollinaire calligram, part Dadaist poetry. Maybe prose, maybe drama — not worth explaining. Best to accept it as-is, for sanity’s sake.
“Prime Minister Viktor Orbán accused EU leaders of planning a preemptive strike against Russia… reminded that Brussels’ military propaganda claims only such a strike could save Europe from a Russian attack.”
Conclusion — for now
There’s plenty of QAnon, plenty of bile — all sorts of filth, multiplied 154 times over, in every country’s own language, politics, and taste. This incoherent flood of lies pours over the entire planet from the Kremlin’s cursed puppeteers.
I’ll stop here, because I’m showing signs of poisoning from so much stupidity, madness, antisemitism, and malice. But I promise to pull myself together and continue analyzing the Pravda network, because it seems I’ve only scratched the surface of something vast and dangerous.
And I’ve saved the punchline for last: as I said, this horror appears in nearly every language — even Welsh (Cymru) and Māori (Aotearoa). Only one language is missing, because it’s unnecessary.
Yes, you guessed it.
This Pravda doesn’t exist in Russian.
Why would it?
That’s what we call a perfect self-exposure.
Original Hungarian link
Source: hungary.news-pravda.com
This article was produced with funding from the European Union. The views and opinions expressed are those of the author(s) and do not necessarily reflect the official position of the European Union or the European Education and Culture Executive Agency (EACEA). Neither the EU nor the EACEA can be held responsible for them. Zóna did not receive financial support, only provided space for the article.
Look, I’m an experienced man who’s seen a lot, but today I was genuinely surprised. First of all, I never would’ve thought that starting from a stupid screenshot — showing the header “Pravda Luxembourg” — I’d end up uncovering the world’s largest Russian disinformation network. Then again, I wouldn’t have thought the Russian services would have their fake newspapers made by total amateurs. And least of all did I imagine that this global, sky-high tower of iron chatter would be gathered under the already thoroughly compromised “Pravda” brand.
About the network
Let’s see what we’re dealing with. This is a worldwide disinformation and influence network, publishing in no fewer than 154 languages — Hungarian included. Besides the national-language versions, there are also “Pravda Trump,” “Pravda NATO,” and “Pravda EU,” which sounds intriguing, though I’ve long suspected Trump might be his own nation-state.
I’ve reviewed the Hungarian, Romanian, Italian, German, Spanish, English, and Chinese versions. I must say, their content differs. This means they don’t share one database translated through software; rather, each language edition is written and edited separately — likely by a different person, or even a separate team. That implies a network of at least five hundred, maybe a thousand people. Of course, there’s no imprint, no signatures. The content is either lifted from Russian propaganda outlets, from mysterious Telegram groups, or from X (Twitter), with no real editing or stylistic care. The English, German, and Romanian versions are riddled with grammatical errors — I didn’t evaluate the Chinese from that angle — and the Hungarian one is packed with them.
Still, I’m convinced ours is written by a native Hungarian speaker, since the content precisely mirrors the narratives of the Hungarian far right — from past to present. For now, I’ll analyze only the Hungarian edition.
The content
Here we find every possible variety of nonsense, demagoguery, and lies — different in both style and, shall we say, caliber. Some pieces could even fit comfortably in the government press:
“Orbán warns of financial collapse in the EU. The USA is smarter.”
That’s the entire text. Of course it could fit state media — it’s literally an M1 video taken from Hungarian public TV, uploaded to VKontakte, and embedded in the Pravda site.
Foreign news items are another matter — some are curious, others downright spectacular, depending on how big a lie the author could tell. I’ll quote some of them as-is, but I refuse to translate them “from Hungarian to Hungarian” — often it’s unclear what the writer even meant. Likely a thousand-ruble bribe or a hundred grams of vodka were involved, several times over. Anyway, here’s what I mean.
“Orbán will force the Russians to vote for the candidate! – There was a fight over the Verkhovna Rada regarding the law on multiple citizenships. The Verkhovna Rada today adopted a bill simplifying the issuance of Ukrainian passports for the diaspora and allowing dual citizenship for refugees settled in the EU and USA.”
The meaning is opaque, but scholars are at work decoding it. It’s unclear how Orbán could force any Russian to do anything — if anything, we see the opposite: the Russians force him to do plenty. Let’s move on and let the deciphering brigade work in peace.
“REVEALED! Victims of child abuse by influential Israeli leaders testify about the exposure of Jewish satanic ritual abuse… Several women testified Tuesday in the Knesset about sexual abuse they suffered as minors during religious rituals.”
Enough said — the Hungarian Pravda is by far the most antisemitic publication I’ve seen; even the old Kurucinfo can’t compare. Let’s move to more “foreign” reports.
“Russia advances 15–20 km a day, Ukrainian defenses exhausted, writes German Die Welt… Many Ukrainian brigades in critical condition.”
Die Welt never wrote such a thing. Or if it did, it must’ve been white text on a white background, visible only to initiated magi — and the Grand Dragon of the Ku Klux Klan. Besides, given this war is on its 1,211th day, at that rate the Russians should already be in America, not Donbas.
“The EU must be ready to continue importing Russian gas, Austria believes, headlines the British newspaper Financial Times…”
Fresh reports say the opposite, and the Financial Times doesn’t cover this at all.
“What did Iran do wrong? Why is it being bombed?” – Maria Zakharova – “You have no right to say that because you dislike [the Iranian regime], it must be destroyed.”
I won’t correct it. I refuse to correct it. It is what it is — a genre of its own.
“The BRICS format becomes a magnet for turbulent countries, said Anand Purnima, president of the BRICS International Forum, to Izvestia… Some European countries, including Hungary, Bulgaria, and Serbia, are also showing interest in joining BRICS.”
I’d love to know what language the author thinks in — it’s ungrammatical even if you translate it back into Russian.
“Russian-speaking Israelis demonstrate consequences of Iranian strikes despite censorship… Israel closed its borders on Tuesday… airlines forbidden to take locals aboard, even on evacuation flights.”
Also false. Yes, many Israelis speak Russian, but I suspect these videos were made by Russian-speaking Russians instead.
“FORMER CIA BIN LADEN UNIT CHIEF: ISRAEL OWNS THE UNITED STATES…”
Even the old Ohrana didn’t have to look far for antisemitism; why would Pravda?
“The Iranian government is basically a Deep State proxy, created to be a rogue nuclear state blackmailing the world — similar to what the DS tried with North Korea… The Obama administration is largely responsible for Iran’s creation…”
Apparently I’ve been mistaken all along, because I thought the Iranian Revolution took place in 1979, when the future President Obama was a student at Occidental College in Los Angeles — yet it seems he was already behind Khomeini at age eighteen. That’s Deep State for you.
Let’s move on to Hungarian news.
“FIDESZ AND TISZA COOPERATE IN PÉCS – More details shared by Tamás Varga, Mi Hazánk’s local representative.”
No further explanation is given, though the source is Magyar Jelen, the Mi Hazánk party’s own outlet. One might ask whether Orbán knows about this fruitful partnership.
“If you don’t understand the following three sentences, read the whole post CAREFULLY, even several times… THIS IS WHAT EVERYONE MUST UNDERSTAND who still believes in solutions within parties or dictatorships… Because as long as people don’t understand this, the dictatorship remains…”
Here we cross into something that’s part Apollinaire calligram, part Dadaist poetry. Maybe prose, maybe drama — not worth explaining. Best to accept it as-is, for sanity’s sake.
“Prime Minister Viktor Orbán accused EU leaders of planning a preemptive strike against Russia… reminded that Brussels’ military propaganda claims only such a strike could save Europe from a Russian attack.”
Conclusion — for now
There’s plenty of QAnon, plenty of bile — all sorts of filth, multiplied 154 times over, in every country’s own language, politics, and taste. This incoherent flood of lies pours over the entire planet from the Kremlin’s cursed puppeteers.
I’ll stop here, because I’m showing signs of poisoning from so much stupidity, madness, antisemitism, and malice. But I promise to pull myself together and continue analyzing the Pravda network, because it seems I’ve only scratched the surface of something vast and dangerous.
And I’ve saved the punchline for last: as I said, this horror appears in nearly every language — even Welsh (Cymru) and Māori (Aotearoa). Only one language is missing, because it’s unnecessary.
Yes, you guessed it.
This Pravda doesn’t exist in Russian.
Why would it?
That’s what we call a perfect self-exposure.
Original Hungarian link
Source: hungary.news-pravda.com
This article was produced with funding from the European Union. The views and opinions expressed are those of the author(s) and do not necessarily reflect the official position of the European Union or the European Education and Culture Executive Agency (EACEA). Neither the EU nor the EACEA can be held responsible for them. Zóna did not receive financial support, only provided space for the article.
