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Political put-down of the week:"Viktator," chanted by crowds in Budapest protesting the increasingly obnoxious government of Prime Minister Viktor Orban. Time for a Hungarian Spring? Space cadet: Vladimir Popovkln, head of Russia's rocket scientists, has suggested that America is zapping Russian satellites because they tend to disappear "when they are flying above the part of Earth that's in a shadow zone for Russia." Poor Popovkin needs a scapegoat: his agency has lost five sats in 13 months.