"The spokeswoman for the Russian Foreign Ministry condemned the expulsion of Russian diplomats in unusually strong terms: She spoke of a "Russophobe lobby in Budapest" and announced a "hard and painful" response.
Russian lawmaker Andrey Kolesnik, a member of the State Duma's Defense Committee, said that halting gas supplies to Hungary would have to be considered.
Hungary's Foreign Minister Anita Orban knows more about such Russian threats than anyone else in the new Hungarian government: She wrote her doctoral thesis in 2007 on Russia's energy policy in Central Europe."
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