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By Tamas Csonka in Budapest Hungary’s radical right-wing leader Viktor Orban is struggling to cope with the country’s unfolding cost of living crisis, a task made much harder because of his pre-election spending spree and his isolation inside the European Union. Surging energy prices and a bulging budget deficit have already forced the government to cut back regulated gas and electricity subsidies as energy imports rose to more than 10% of GDP. Hungary’s strongman is trying to shift the blame for the country’s looming recession and record inflation on to the EU’s sanctions on Russia, a risky p…