Articles by Varvara Prodai

September 30, 2025

How Hungary reframed LGBTQ Pride as a national security issue

Varvara Prodai
Hungary’s government recast Budapest Pride as a danger to children and national security, then banned the 2025 march. Varvara Prodai’s data show that the 'security threat' framing spiked in Hungarian, while English-language messaging remained legalistic, revealing a two-track playbook that weakens minority rights and narrows civic space
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Varvara Prodai
Undergraduate Student, HSE University, Moscow

Varvara's work examines discourse on 'traditional values', gender policy, populism, and information campaigns in Central and Eastern Europe.

Beyond academia, she writes for EUobserver and DennikN as well as for Russian-speaking NGOs.

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