Magyar was listed in the US which gave authorities there jurisdiction over the company.
In Montenegro, Magyar was charged with paying officials to help secure more favourable contracts.
But one lot of Magyar oligarchs has been replaced by another, who are allies of Fidesz.
Meanwhile, a raven-haired Magyar concert violinist adds an exotic love interest to an already enthralling narrative.
The historically difficult relationships with Serbia, Romania and Ukraine, all home to Magyar minorities, look chummy in comparison.
Its new bugbear is the Magyar Garda (Hungarian Guard), a self-styled civil-defence group.
In 955, King Otto I of Germany defeated the Magyars (Hungarians) at the Battle of Lechfeld, ending a threatened Magyar invasion.
The charges relate to alleged payments made in 2005 and 2006 by Magyar to Macedonian officials in order to help keep rivals out of the domestic telecoms market.
The Fidesz government has been in trouble before over allegedly anti-Semitic and anti-Roma comments by its supporters, including Zsolt Bayer, a columnist at the daily Magyar Hirlap.
The stadium where the magical Magyar Ferenc Puskas's drag-back left Billy Wright floundered, and where Manchester United beat Benfica to claim the European Cup for the first time.
They were very unhappy to have the prime minister's past suddenly aired in front-page articles in Magyar Nemzet, a right-wing newspaper close to Viktor Orban's recently-ousted centre-right government.
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The Magyar minority is bigger in Romania, but the authorities there are in no position to complain about the citizenship law: they issue passports plentifully to compatriots in Moldova.
It seized the imagination of a world shocked by the crushing of the Magyar uprising, while offering some crumbs of comfort to a traumatized nation as the Hungarians triumphed 4-0.
The main sticking point is a law passed last year that the EU, European Central Bank and International Monetary Fund believe jeopardizes the independence of Hungary's central bank, the Magyar Nemzeti Bank.
And Gergely Gulyas, the deputy leader of the Fidesz parliamentary group, told the right-wing daily Magyar Nemzet that the government saw no reason to put off the vote despite "domestic and international kerfuffle".
Support for Jobbik, the thuggish far-right party which won 17% of the vote in April, and the Magyar Garda, its uniformed wing, is sliding as the party fractures amid a welter of mutual recriminations.
The populist mayor of Cluj, Georghe Funar, has built a career out of needling the city's Hungarians, doing away with historic street-names and sponsoring what Hungarians say is a spurious archaeological dig round a statue of Matthias Corvinus, a 15th-century Magyar king.
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