Hungary is attracted by millions of people all over the world, and Russian speaking immigrants are not an exception. Living in Hungary, a Russian person tries to be somehow connected to his homeland, and Volga-Press.BT a Hungarian company organised by Russian immigrant helps keeping them in touch with the latest news and culture. Volga-Press.BT is a company that distributes press from Russia and Commonwealth of Independent States. It offers Hungarian and immigrant subscribers to get their favourite periodicals directly to their letter-box either every day, weekly or monthly depending on the type of periodicals they are interested in.

By Ma Ying – Hai Di

Last year, at the concert of the Shanghai Philharmonic Orchestra in Budapest, a friend of mine introduced Lan Mei Li, a charming woman in her 30’s to me. She is a musician, now living in Switzerland but often coming back to Budapest, where she has finished her musical studies a couple of years ago.

By Itopa Tersoo

A Nigerian man called Nelson Victor in 1995 found a football Academy here in Hungary named Internationale Football Academy – Afrique Internationale FC with the full name of Internationale club de Football (inter CDF SE). The Academy/ club was established with the motives of helping develop the skills of young footballers in Hungary and even beyond, who has a dream of taking football as their career in life regardless of their race, religion, creed, sex, ability or even financial status. The Academy has training sessions and once a week, a friendly match with top professional clubs. These training sessions are usually on Mondays, Wednesdays and Fridays. Most of the players in this Football Academy are migrants and as a result of this Academy, it has giving them a great support to integrate faster in Hungary which they have made their home already.

The Hungarian government, Hungarian football federation, Budapest football federation recognize the club, also the club has been recognized by the local council authorities, the club also have the support and recognition of the Nigerian embassy in Budapest. The African Hungarian Union, the Nigerian Union, The Ghanaian Union and the Cameroonian Union also recognize the Academy/ club.

Here is a short video interview with the founder of the Academy/ club, below.   

By Alexandra Takács

Living in Hungary our family adapts Russian tradition and cuisine to the Hungarian environment. One of the favourite dainty of Russian cuisine is the traditional Russian pancakes made from kefir, as we call them at home “pancakes with little bubbles”.  

By Hakeem Babalola 

The Brazilian community in Budapest seems to understand the power of integration.

It is this understanding that obviously gave birth to the first Brazil week which was celebrated on September 11 2011 in Budapest to commemorate the country’s independence.

By Alexandra Takács

In the Year 2012, with the cooperation of Russian Cultural Centre a joint concert of two bands, „The Big Joe’s Band” and “Russian Rollers”, took place. The date of the first concert was April 13^th, 2012 and I was one of the first visitors who was really impressed by the atmosphere these two bands created while performing.

By Itopa Tersoo

Living in a foreign land has been a great motivation and challenge to my life as an individual and as a businessman. I came all the way in 2010 from the western side of Africa (Nigeria) into Europe (Hungary) in order to further my education and see how I can secure a much more better life for myself in the nearest future, with the idea that life in Europe is far more better than the life in Africa; Could this be true? Now let me briefly share with you my own experience while living here in Europe.