Not necessesarily. The station the TV was on was Euronews, a real European TV station. They have an English channel. Then again, they also have a Hungarian channel. I remember switching between local channels and CNN and MSNBC(?) on that day (some US stations are available via Satellite in Europe, so not completely out of the question that the café owner would have an English-language channel on, on this particular day).
Edited to add: I listened closely to that scene again --the Euronews station is actually the Russian one (cyrillic text on screen, and the presenter is speaking Russian)! I don't know when the Hungarian service of Euronews went online, but in 2001, there were probably still more people in Hungary with a functional knowledge of Russian than of English. This has certainly changed. So probably not an error, but rather a correct depiction of a street scene in Hungary (any Hungarians reading this and disagreeing, please chime in :-) ).
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Leventee
8 years ago
Just saw your reply.
I couldn't say Russian is common here, mostly it's German and English, but there might be another explanation, for some reason, our national television broadcasts news in like 5-6 languages, including russian, so that might explain it.
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