I won't dispute any facts here, that's beyond my experience and knowledge. The article doesn't give a good motivation for Hungary to allow major Russian spying.

I won't dispute any facts here, that's beyond my experience and knowledge. The article doesn't give a good motivation for Hungary to allow major Russian spying. Hungary had a major beef with USSR over the USSR crushing the 1956 Hungarian uprising. That's within living memory. Why cosy up to Russia now? Cheap fossil fuel seems like a bad bargain.