According to a report by the Washington Post Shortly before the Hungarian parliamentary elections, Russian secret service is said to have proposed an explosive plan to politically stabilize Prime Minister Viktor Orbán. In an internal document from the Russian foreign secret service SVR, which is supposed to be available to a European intelligence agency, a staged assassination attempt on Orbán is described as a possible “game changer” scenario. The aim would have been to shift the campaign dynamics from social and economic policy debates to the emotional question of security and stability, according to the document Washington Post was able to see.