Hungary Vote Monitors Rebuked for Former Putin Translator’s Role

The international organization monitoring the fairness of elections has drawn criticism over the presence of a Russian staff member in its efforts to oversee Hungary’s pivotal April ballot.

The Hungarian Helsinki Committee, a Budapest-based rights group, wrote to the Organization for Security and Cooperation in Europe asking about the involvement of Daria Boyarskaya, Senior Adviser of the OSCE Parliamentary Assembly, in the organization’s election observation mission on Hungary.