2014 Hrushevskoho Street riots, Timeline of the events, 28 January–17 February
Pro -government lawmakers joined with the opposition in Parliament to repeal 9 of the 11 anti-protest laws, which had triggered the violence. Yanukovych also proposed offering amnesty to the protesters if they abandoned their positions and dispersed. In addition, he promised the formation of a committee which would propose revisions to the Ukrainian constitution that would weaken the powers of the president. Most spectators did not expect these concessions to be sufficient to satisfy protesters, many of whom are still demanding Yanukovych's resignation.


2014 Hrushevskoho Street riots, Timeline of the events, 28 January–17 February
On 2 February, 5,000 gathered on Hrushevskoho to support the standoff. The faceoff was described by the Kyiv Post as "not likely to end soon."


2014 Hrushevskoho Street riots, Timeline of the events, 28 January–17 February
On 6 February thousands (according to an UNIAN correspondent about 3 to 4 thousand) of Ukrainian opposition activists, some carrying shields and baseball bats, marched from their camp on Maidan Nezalezhnosti to the Verkhovna Rada building (according to BBC News) in a show of force. According to (commandant of Euromaidan) Andriy Parubiy the march had a warning character, and if authorities did not consider the demands of Euromaidan, the actions would have a more decisive character "the next time".


2014 Hrushevskoho Street riots, Timeline of the events, 28 January–17 February
On 14 February, Right Sector, in compliance with the amnesty law freeing protesters, agreed to restore traffic on Hrushevskoho Street. All members of the UNSO left the scene. At the same time, the Right Sector demanded the immediate closure of all criminal cases against protesters, saying "Unless this is done as soon as possible, we reserve the right to act at our own discretion."


2014 Hrushevskoho Street riots, Timeline of the events, 28 January–17 February
The Maidan council also agreed to restore traffic; "This does not mean that we are surrendering the buildings, this does not mean that we are pulling down the barricades, this means that we will partially unblock Hrushevskoho Street to restore traffic," activist of Maidan Andriy Dzyndzia said, and also reiterated that protesters will remain on Hrushevskoho Street.


2014 Hrushevskoho Street riots, Timeline of the events, 28 January–17 February
On 17 February an activist was stabbed in the lung after he crossed into the police-controlled side the barricades.


2014 Hrushevskoho Street riots, Timeline of the events, 18–23 February
On 18 February, thousands marched on Parliament and were met with hundreds of police and Berkut forces.


2014 Hrushevskoho Street riots, Timeline of the events, 18–23 February, Breach of Hrushevskogo Street Barricade
Throughout the day of 18 February 2014, protesters lit tires, threw and launched Molotov Coctails, bars of steel and other projectiles at lines of Berkut police. At 17:04, armed Berkut untied the wire at the Mykhaila Hrushevskogo Street barricade gate near Dynamo Stadium and penetrated with some surprise. EuroMaidan protesters were watching a drone hovering from the opposite direction, with their backs turned to the police. Hundreds of Berkut began throwing grenades, two of which injured me (U.S. photographer Mark Estabrook) and countless others while discharging their pistols and shotguns. Euromaidan protesters and civilians began a mass retreat toward the next gate in a barricade on Khreschatyk Street. There were many injuries and several deaths.


2014 Hrushevskoho Street riots, Participants, Neutral parties
There have been a number of participants not directly involved in the conflict, such as journalists and medics. Medics have worked on a volunteer basis providing urgent and first aid to wounded.


2014 Hrushevskoho Street riots, Participants, Self-defense units
Self-defense and creation of the barricades has been carried out by Right Sector, the UNA-UNSO, and other self-defense units. Notably, one such multi-ethnic unit is led by a Jewish man, and includes Georgians, Azerbaijani, Armenians, and Russians.


2014 Hrushevskoho Street riots, Casualties, Protesters
According to medical workers on the ground: 300 were injured and treated on 20 January 250 on 21 January, more than 400 were injured on 22 January, and 70 on 23 January.


2014 Hrushevskoho Street riots, Casualties, Protesters
In addition, according to city medical officials, a total of 157 protesters have sought medical aid between 19 and 23 January, with 72 admitted to hospitals. The majority of complaints were made at the Maidan medical aid center which was set up near the barricades on Hrushevskoho Street on 19 January and most of those injured have avoided hospitals as those treated have been subject to arrest.


2014 Hrushevskoho Street riots, Casualties, Protesters
MP Lesya Orobets was targeted by police in the open and beaten in a politically motivated attack, along with 3 guards she was with. In an incident of cruel and unusual punishment, riot police detained two protesters, stripped them naked, doused them in water, and made them run back to Maidan on foot in the sub-freezing temperatures, while they were fired upon with rubber bullets. Two protesters have lost their vision.


2014 Hrushevskoho Street riots, Casualties, Protesters
Several journalists claimed they were targeted by the police, including many who say they were deliberately fired upon. In total, 26 were injured, with at least two badly injured by police stun grenades; a further 2 were arrested by police. Over 30 activists were detained in total. By the 22nd, at least 42 more journalists were victims of clashes at Hrushevskoho Street on 22 January 2014.


2014 Hrushevskoho Street riots, Casualties, Protesters, Deaths
On 21 January, the initial report indicated the first death occurred after a 22-year-old man fell from atop the 13-metre high colonnade in front of Dynamo Stadium while confronted by Berkut police, and suffered fractures to his spine's cervical vertebrae. Reports of the incident debate on whether the man jumped from the building to flee the beating, fell, or if he was pushed by police. Later reports caused confusion after it was reported by medical staff that an additional man, 43 years old, fell from the roof, but survived; however, he fell fixing an antenna and was not on Hrushevskoho.


2014 Hrushevskoho Street riots, Casualties, Protesters, Deaths
In the early morning of 22 January, police gunfire killed Serhiy Nigoyan, a 20-year-old ethnic Armenian Euromaidan participant from Dnipropetrovsk, while he was climbing the barricades in the conflict zone acting as security. It was reported he received four gunshot wounds, including to the head, and died on the scene before being taken to hospital.


2014 Hrushevskoho Street riots, Casualties, Protesters, Deaths
Also killed was Belarusian citizen and UNA-UNSO member Mikhail "Loki" Zhyznewski, who was shot dead by police by a sniper rifle. Forensics experts found that Nihoyan was killed with buckshot and Zhyznevsky with a rifle bullet, while medics confirmed the bullet wounds to be from firearms such as the Dragunov sniper rifle (7.62 mm) and possibly a Makarov handgun (9mm).


2014 Hrushevskoho Street riots, Casualties, Protesters, Deaths
Two other shooting victims were announced by Euromaidan medical service coordinators by Wednesday evening, based on TV footage in which police were seen dragging motionless bodies to their side of the fighting lines. These alleged deaths were not confirmed. On 25 January, Roman Senyk died in a Kyiv hospital after being wounded in the chest in the Hrushevskoho Street riots on 22 January.


2014 Hrushevskoho Street riots, Casualties, Protesters, Deaths
A report published on 25 January by Armament Research Services, a specialty arms and munitions consultancy in Perth, Australia, says the mysterious cufflink-shaped projectiles presumably fired by riot police on Hrushevskoho Street at protesters during clashes this week are not meant for riot control, but for stopping vehicles, busting through doors and piercing armor. The bullets, writes Jenzen-Jones, who specializes in Eastern bloc weapons, are special armor-piercing 12-gauge shotgun projectiles, likely developed and produced by the Spetstekhnika (Specialized Equipment) design bureau, a facility located in Kyiv and associated with the Ministry of Internal Affairs.


2014 Hrushevskoho Street riots, Casualties, Protesters, Deaths
On 28 January, 52-year-old Bohdan Kalyniak died in hospital of pneumonia as a result of police water cannons being used against protestors in sub-freezing temperatures during clashes on Hrushevskoho Street.


2014 Hrushevskoho Street riots, Casualties, Protesters, Deaths
On 29 January two men, one younger and one older, were shot on Hrushevskoho Street and brought to a Kyiv hospital. The latter died from the gunshot wounds the following day.


2014 Hrushevskoho Street riots, Casualties, Police
According to reports from the Interior Ministry, at least 100 riot police were injured in the clashes of 19 January with 61 of those officers being hospitalized. According to the Interior Ministry's official website, demonstrators captured and beat one Berkut riot-police officer who was taken to the opposition-occupied House of Trade Unions and later sent to a hospital for treatment. Videos show protesters throwing molotovs at riot police officers, injuring some of them.


2014 Hrushevskoho Street riots, Casualties, Police
On 23 January 235 officers were reported injured with 104 hospitalized. By 25 January, the MVS reported that 285 police officers were injured, 104 of which were hospitalised, and 1,340 had fallen ill (primarily from pneumonia and hypothermia).


2014 Huddersfield Giants season
This article details the Huddersfield Giants rugby league football club's 2014 season. This is the 19th season of the Super League era and the Huddersfield Giants 12th since promotion back to the top flight in 2003. The Huddersfield Giants came into the season as defending League Leaders' Shield winners, finishing top of the Super League the previous year – their first 1st-place finish in 81 years. Huddersfield Giants hoped to have a play-off place for the sixth consecutive season and a first Super League Grand Final appearance.


2014 Huddersfield Giants season, Table
* - Bradford Bulls deducted 6 points on 25 February 2014 for entering administration


2014 Hull City Council election
The 2014 Hull City Council election took place on 22 May 2014 to elect members of Hull City Council in England. One third of the council was up for election and Labour retained control of the council.


2014 Hull City Council election
A total of 46,205 people voted from a registered electorate of 167,336. Turnout was therefore 27.6%


2014 Hull City Council election, Ward results
No elections were held in Beverley, Kings Park and Newland wards.


2014 Hull City Council election, Ward results, Marfleet
Two vacancies to be filled, as a casual vacancy, created by the death of Councillor Sheila Waudby, was also to be filled.


2014 Hull FC season
This article details the Hull F.C. rugby league football club's 2014 season. This is the 19th season of the Super League era.


2014 Humboldt State Lumberjacks football team
The 2014 Humboldt State Lumberjacks football team represented Humboldt State University during the 2014 NCAA Division II football season. Humboldt State competed in the Great Northwest Athletic Conference (GNAC).


2014 Humboldt State Lumberjacks football team
The 2014 Lumberjacks were led by seventh-year head coach Rob Smith. They played home games at the Redwood Bowl in Arcata, California. Humboldt State finished the season with a record of eight wins and two losses (8–2, 4–2 GNAC). The Lumberjacks outscored their opponents 388–181 for the 2014 season. This was a remarkable turnaround from the previous season when they were winless. Their offensive output increased from 15 points per game to 38, and the defense held the opponents to an average of 18 points versus 32 the previous year.


2014 Humboldt State Lumberjacks football team, Team players in the NFL
No Humboldt State players were selected in the 2015 NFL Draft.


2014 Hun Sen Cup
Hun Sen Cup, the main football knockout tournament in Cambodia. The 2014 Hun Sen Cup is the 8th season of the Hun Sen Cup, the premier knockout tournament for association football clubs in Cambodia involving Cambodian League and provincial teams organized by the Football Federation of Cambodia.


2014 Hun Sen Cup
Nagaworld FC were the defending champions, having beaten National Defense Ministry FC 5–3 on penalty shoot-out after 0-0 extra time in the previous season's final.


2014 Hun Sen Cup, Qualifying round
The matches were arranged in six regions and divided into six groups. The top three teams in Group A and the top one team of other five groups from B to F advanced to the Group stage with the eight teams (rank 1 to 8) of Cambodian League 2013.


2014 Hun Sen Cup, Qualifying round
Group A - Asia Euro United, Western Phnom Penh, Khan Chamkarmon, Khan Meanchey, Khan Dongkor


2014 Hun Sen Cup, Qualifying round
Group B - Tri Asia, Prey Veng, Svay Rieng Military Police


2014 Hun Sen Cup, Qualifying round
Group C - Oddar Meanchey, Preah Vihear, Baksei Chamkrong (Siem Reap), Kompong Thom


2014 Hun Sen Cup, Qualifying round
Group D - Kampong Chhnang, Rice Bank (Pursat), Battambang, Pailin Police


2014 Hun Sen Cup, Qualifying round
Group E - Sihanouk, Kep, Kampot, Koh Kong Military Police


2014 Hun Sen Cup, Qualifying round
Group F - Kratie (only one team in this group)


2014 Hun Sen Cup, Group stage
The teams finishing in the top two positions in each of the four groups (highlighted in tables) in group stage progressed to the quarter-finals.


2014 Hunan military training incident
On August 24, 2014 an incident between students and teachers took place during a military training event at Huangcang Secondary School (simplified Chinese: 皇仓中学; traditional Chinese: 皇倉中學; pinyin: Huángcāng Zhōngxué) in Longshan County, Xiangxi Tujia and Miao Autonomous Prefecture, Hunan, China.


2014 Hunan military training incident
In China mandatory military training is done in several educational institutes with first year students at the start of each school year. In the morning an incident involving 10th grade students seemed to be resolved amicably, but in the afternoon the instructors began showing aggression towards the students who were involved, prompting criticism from Mr. Liu, the students' teacher, towards the military training instructors. A fight broke out and 40 students, a teacher, and a military training instructor received injuries. 22 people were still hospitalized as of Tuesday, .


2014 Hunan military training incident
By August 28, 2014 there were 14,000 forwardings of the story on Sina Weibo.


2014 Hungarian Grand Prix
The 2014 Hungarian Grand Prix (formally the Formula 1 Pirelli Magyar Nagydíj 2014) was a Formula One motor race held on 27 July 2014 at the Hungaroring in Mogyoród, Hungary. It was the eleventh round of the 2014 Formula One season and the 30th Hungarian Grand Prix, and the 29th time it had been held as a round of the World Championship. The 70-lap race was won by Daniel Ricciardo for the Red Bull Racing team after starting from fourth position. Fernando Alonso finished second in a Ferrari, with Lewis Hamilton third in a Mercedes.


2014 Hungarian Grand Prix
The race was only the third Hungarian Grand Prix to be rain-affected, after the 2006 and 2011 races. Thunderstorms and heavy rain soaked the track at around lunchtime, forcing the drivers to start on intermediates before the track dried out later on in the race. This race was the most recent podium finish for Fernando Alonso.


2014 Hungarian Grand Prix, Report, Background
The Grand Prix was contested by eleven teams, each of two drivers. The teams, also known as constructors, were Red Bull Racing, Mercedes-Benz, Ferrari, Lotus, McLaren, Force India, Sauber, Toro Rosso, Williams, Marussia and Caterham. Tyre supplier Pirelli brought four different tyre types to the race: two dry compounds, the medium "primes" and the soft "options" and two wet-weather compounds, the intermediate and full wet. The drag reduction system (DRS) had two activation zones for the race; one was on the start/finish straight from the final to first corners, and the second from turns 1 and 2.


2014 Hungarian Grand Prix, Report, Background
Going into the race, Mercedes driver Nico Rosberg led the Drivers' Championship with 190 points, ahead of teammate Lewis Hamilton on 176 points and Daniel Ricciardo on 106. Fernando Alonso was fourth with 97 points while Valtteri Bottas was fifth on 91 points. In the Constructors' Championship Mercedes were leading with 366 points, Red Bull and Williams were second and third with 188 and 121 points respectively, while Ferrari with 116 and Force India on 98 points rounded out the top five positions. Mercedes had so far dominated the championship, winning nine out of the ten previous races, with Ricciardo winning the Canadian Grand Prix. Kevin Magnussen and Bottas had each gained second-place finishes, and Vettel, Alonso, Jenson Button and Sergio Pérez had achieved third place podium finishes.


2014 Hungarian Grand Prix, Report, Background
Several teams made technical changes to their cars for the Grand Prix. Marussia changed one of their MR03 chassis for Max Chilton following balance and electrical issues that arose during the Austrian Grand Prix. Williams introduced a small wing section, aimed at increasing the amount of downforce, and therefore grip, produced by the bodywork. Lotus brought new front wing endplates, which were designed to scavenge airflow more efficiently.


2014 Hungarian Grand Prix, Report, Practice and qualifying
Three practice sessions were held before the race; two 90 minute sessions on Friday and one lasting an hour on Saturday. Hamilton was the fastest driver in the first practice session, ahead of Rosberg and Ferrari driver Kimi Räikkönen. Chilton's Marussia car was afflicted by an oil leak, resulting in a fire; this restricted him to completing only five timed laps, and he was 21st overall. Hamilton was fastest in the second session, ahead of Rosberg, Vettel and Alonso — although Hamilton had struggled with tyre grip throughout the session. The third session on Saturday morning saw Hamilton again fastest, ahead of Rosberg, Ricciardo and Vettel.


2014 Hungarian Grand Prix, Report, Practice and qualifying
The qualifying session on Saturday afternoon was split into three parts. The first part ran for 18 minutes and eliminated the cars from qualifying that finished the session 17th or lower. During this session, the 107% rule was in effect, which necessitated each driver set a time within 107% of the quickest lap to qualify for the race. The second part of qualifying lasted 15 minutes and eliminated cars that finished in positions 11 to 16. The final part of qualifying determined the positions from first to tenth, and decided pole position.


2014 Hungarian Grand Prix, Report, Practice and qualifying
Rosberg achieved his sixth pole position of the season, and his first at the Hungaroring, with a time of 1:22.715. He was joined on the front row by Vettel. Hamilton's car caught fire during qualifying before he could post a time, and so he started the race from the back row.


2014 Hungarian Grand Prix, Report, Race
The race started at 14:00 local time. The track was wet before the race, as thunderstorms had hit the area throughout the day. The air temperature ranged between 20 to 21 °C (68 to 70 °F), with the track temperature between 27 to 28 °C (81 to 82 °F).


2014 Hungarian Grand Prix, Report, Race
All the runners began the race on intermediate tyres. At the start of the race, Nico Rosberg led into the first corner, while Valtteri Bottas overtook Sebastian Vettel on the outside of turn one to take second position. Fernando Alonso also overtook Vettel shortly after turn one to take third, but Vettel repassed him later on in the lap. Having started from the pit lane, Lewis Hamilton had not been permitted to participate in the formation lap. As a result, his brakes were cold, and on the first lap he spun off at turn two. The front left of his car lightly scraped against the barriers, mildly damaging the front wing, but otherwise his car sustained no serious damage and Hamilton rejoined the track, albeit last in 22nd position.


2014 Hungarian Grand Prix, Report, Race
By lap 9, Rosberg had pulled out an advantage over the field and Hamilton had made his way up to 13th, but a crash by Marcus Ericsson meant that the safety car was deployed.


2014 Hungarian Grand Prix, Report, Race
All the drivers pitted under the safety car – all switching to dry tyres except the two McLarens who put on more intermediates –  but the timing of the safety car's deployment meant that the top four runners (Rosberg, Bottas, Vettel and Alonso) missed the pit entry and had to do the entire lap behind the safety car before they could pit, costing them a considerable amount of time to the cars behind.


2014 Hungarian Grand Prix, Report, Race
Following the pit stops, Rosberg had moved down from 1st to 4th, and Bottas lost out massively to move down from 2nd to 11th, while Hamilton maintained 13th. Daniel Ricciardo benefited greatly from the safety car timing and was now leading the race. The safety car stayed out for longer than usual as Romain Grosjean lost control of his car and crashed under safety car conditions, but racing resumed on lap 14 and Jenson Button quickly passed Ricciardo for the lead.


2014 Hungarian Grand Prix, Report, Race
The following lap Rosberg was overtaken by Jean-Éric Vergne, demoting him to fifth, while Hamilton overtook four cars in one lap to move up to ninth. Having done only two laps on the intermediates, Button pitted from the lead for dry tyres on lap 16 as it became clear that the track was drying. McLaren's decision to put him on a second set of intermediates at his first stop had cost him greatly and he rejoined down the order in 16th.


2014 Hungarian Grand Prix, Report, Race
On lap 17 Nico Hülkenberg retired after colliding with his teammate Sergio Pérez, though Pérez avoided any major damage. At this point Hamilton was up to seventh behind Vettel and only a second back from Rosberg, who was still fifth and stuck behind Vergne. Alonso was excelling in the conditions and had moved up to third by lap 18. On lap 23 Pérez spun at the final corner and crashed into the pit wall, meaning that Force India had suffered their first double retirement of the season.


2014 Hungarian Grand Prix, Report, Race
This brought out another safety car, prompting Ricciardo and Massa to pit from first and second, rejoining in sixth and seventh behind Alonso, Vergne, Rosberg, Vettel and Hamilton, all of whom stayed out under the safety car. The safety car came in on lap 27, and Alonso proceeded to pull out a lead over a train of cars reaching from second to fifth. The train of cars was led by Vergne, who was still holding up Rosberg, closely followed by Vettel and Hamilton.


2014 Hungarian Grand Prix, Report, Race
On lap 33 Rosberg pitted for softs from third and rejoined in 13th, while Vettel spun at the final corner – in the same place as Perez did – but miraculously managed to avoid contact with the wall. This allowed Hamilton to catch up to Vergne, and the following lap he overtook Vergne on the outside at turn four. On lap 39 Alonso pitted for soft tyres, and a lap later Hamilton pitted for medium tyres, rejoining in fourth and fifth respectively. This promoted Ricciardo back into the lead of the race. Rosberg had been making up positions but had been jumped by Hamilton in the pit stops and was down in ninth.


2014 Hungarian Grand Prix, Report, Race
By lap 47, Rosberg had made further progress and was now almost a second behind Hamilton, with no cars separating them. Hamilton was given team orders to let Rosberg past, as Rosberg was on the softer tyre and had one more stop to make, while Hamilton was on a two stop strategy and did not have to pit again. However, Hamilton did not concede the place, replying on the radio: "I'm not slowing down for Nico. If he gets close enough to overtake, he can overtake me."


2014 Hungarian Grand Prix, Report, Race
Hamilton was aware that he was effectively racing Rosberg at this point, and he did not want to lose a considerable amount of time by lifting to let his title rival through, as Rosberg was still over a second behind him. Race-leader Ricciardo and Rosberg pitted for soft tyres on laps 54 and 56 respectively, rejoining in fourth and seventh. By lap 62, Alonso, Hamilton and Ricciardo were running very closely in first, second and third, with Hamilton 0.4 seconds behind Alonso and Ricciardo 0.4 seconds behind Hamilton.


2014 Hungarian Grand Prix, Report, Race
Meanwhile, Nico Rosberg was running fourth, over twenty seconds behind Ricciardo, but was rapidly closing the gap by up to three seconds a lap on his newer soft tyres, setting the fastest lap of the race while doing so. On lap 63, Alonso cut the chicane, but avoided any penalty and maintained the race lead. Ricciardo passed Hamilton around the outside of turn two on lap 67, and then the following lap passed Alonso at turn one for the race lead with two laps to go.


2014 Hungarian Grand Prix, Report, Race
Alonso continued to defend his position from Hamilton, but both of their tyres had fallen off of their respective operating cliffs – having both done close to 30 laps on their tyres – and by the final lap Rosberg had caught up to the back of them. Rosberg attempted to overtake Hamilton on the outside into turn two, but Hamilton defended and held position. Ricciardo crossed the line to win his second race of the season by 5.2 seconds, with Alonso coming second and Hamilton and Rosberg close behind in third and fourth.


2014 Hungarian Grand Prix, Report, Post-race
The top three drivers appeared on the podium to collect their trophies, and were interviewed by a selected media delegate before the subsequent press conference.


2014 Hungarian Grand Prix, Report, Post-race
The standings barely changed in both the drivers and constructors championships with only one change in both. With a 3rd place, Lewis Hamilton closed the gap on Nico Rosberg to eleven points.


2014 Hungarian Grand Prix, Report, Post-race
After the race, Mercedes' non-executive chairman Niki Lauda said that he agreed with Hamilton's decision to ignore team orders, and stated that Mercedes had panicked in issuing the orders.


2014 Hungarian Grand Prix, Report, Post-race
Both Mercedes cars suffered from rear brake problems at certain points during the race, with Rosberg's brakes overheating behind the first safety car and Hamilton encountering a similar problem in the middle stages of the race. Hamilton's car also suffered from a fuel pressure problem shortly after the rear brake problem. Upon analysing Hamilton's car after the race, Mercedes discovered that the fuel pressure issue had led to a considerable loss in engine power shortly after his second pitstop on lap 40. This cost Hamilton around 0.5 seconds per lap for the rest of the race - potentially costing him victory.


2014 Hungarian Grand Prix, Report, Post-race
This race marked the most recent podium finish for Fernando Alonso. He was the most recent Spanish driver to finish on the podium until Carlos Sainz, Jr. achieved third at the 2019 Brazilian Grand Prix.


2014 Hungarian Internet tax protests
In late October 2014, anti-government demonstrations were held in Hungary, which were triggered by the government's announcement of a proposal to include the taxation of Internet usage in the Taxation Law, to be in effect from 2015. The ruling right-wing coalition's larger party, Fidesz made their proposal public on October 21, which is meant to extend the existing telecommunications tax to Internet usage. The proposal designated a 150 HUF/GB tax rate (with 150 Ft being around $0.62, £0.38, or €0.49) paid by the internet service providers. Later, a cap was proposed: HUF 700 per month (individuals) or HUF 5,000 (companies).


2014 Hungarian Internet tax protests
This idea, possibly coupled with other issues surfacing around the government prompted multiple, generally peaceful demonstrations in Budapest and in other cities in and outside Hungary. The amendment to the law is universally referred to as the "internet tax" (Hungarian: internetadó) by Hungarian and global media outlets and critics, although Fidesz was not using the term in their proposal.


2014 Hungarian Internet tax protests
Following mass protests and international critics, the Hungarian government officially cancelled the proposed tax on internet data traffic on 31 October 2014.


2014 Hungarian Internet tax protests, Tax reform
As part of its economical reforms, Fidesz started to draft the new version of the Tax Law for 2015. Minister of National Economy Mihály Varga announced the proposal on October 21. According to the draft, Internet traffic would be taxed with a 150 Ft/GB rate irrespective of the type of data transmitted.


2014 Hungarian Internet tax protests, Reactions, Online
A Facebook page named Százezren az internetadó ellen ("Hundred Thousand Against the Internet Tax") was created on October 21, the same day the proposal was made public, by Balázs Gulyás, a 27-year-old political blogger, who is also the son of Socialist politician Zita Gurmai. A week later, on the 28th, the page had more than 225,000 "likes".


2014 Hungarian Internet tax protests, Reactions, Online
On Twitter, multiple hashtags became associated with the tax and the demonstrations, the most widely used is #internetado ("internet tax"). Others include #netado ("net tax") and #internettax.


2014 Hungarian Internet tax protests, Reactions, Online
The tax and the demonstrations sparked the creation of memetic images, mocking Fidesz and its chairman, prime minister Viktor Orbán, but some also mocking the demonstrators.


2014 Hungarian Internet tax protests, Reactions, Demonstrations
Gulyás acted as the main organizer of the two main demonstrations at Budapest, also making speeches to the crowd present. The first event was on the 26th in the early evening hours, and instantly got international media coverage. Tens of thousands of people gathered, and while the demonstration's intention was peaceful, hundreds of people attacked the Fidesz party headquarters after the event finished. The building's fence was toppled and its windows were broken in, many people hurled broken computer equipment at the building, including CRT monitors. The day ended with no riot police intervention, though they were assigned to the scene after some time to guard the building. Six people were arrested, including a well-known LGBT activist Milán Rózsa.


2014 Hungarian Internet tax protests, Reactions, Demonstrations
Despite the demand of the demonstrators, Fidesz made it clear they will introduce the tax next year, but they proposed an amendment to cap the tax at 700 Ft/month/subscriber for home users and 5000 Ft/month/subscriber for business users, while stating they intend the tax to be paid by the ISPs rather than the end users. The demonstrators, not finding this satisfactory, gave an "ultimatum" to the government to abandon their plan in the next 48 hours or they would face another demonstration.


2014 Hungarian Internet tax protests, Reactions, Demonstrations
Since Fidesz did not retract their idea, another demonstration was held on the 28th in the early evening hours. Simultaneously, similar events took place in multiple cities in Hungary, and also in Warsaw, Poland. All these later events ended without any vandalism, although riot police was guarding the parliament building. Reuters estimated the number of people approximately 100,000 at the second Budapest demonstration, which was concluded with Gulyás saying that "this is only the beginning", and projected another gathering for November 17, the day the parliament will vote on the modified Tax Law.


2014 Hungarian Internet tax protests, Reactions, International
European Commissioner for Digital Agenda Neelie Kroes called the tax proposal as a "terrible idea". Her spokesperson said "it's not a question whether the tax is legal or not. First, if you take it in the domestic Hungary context, it's the latest of what a lot of people would see as troubling actions. It's part of a pattern and has to be seen as part of that pattern of actions which have limited freedom or sought to take rents without achieving a wider economic or social interest". On 22 October 2014 Kroes added, through her Twitter account, the proposal "is a shame: a shame for users and a shame on the Hungarian government".


2014 Hungarian Internet tax protests, Reactions, International
Last Week's John Oliver satirized the Internet tax proposal and other steps of the Orbán cabinet in his late-night talk television program.


2014 Hungarian Internet tax protests, Withdrawal of the proposal
Following mass protests, the Hungarian government decided to drop the idea of proposed Internet tax on 31 October 2014. Prime Minister Viktor Orbán said "this tax in its current form cannot be introduced" and added the protesters misunderstood the government's intention. Orbán also commissioned MEP and fellow Fidesz member Tamás Deutsch to organize the conditions for so-called "national consultation" and compile its questions.


2014 Hungarian Internet tax protests, Withdrawal of the proposal
On 17 November 2014 at "Public Outrage Day" protest, while celebrating the abolition of Internet tax proposal, tens of thousands protested against government corruption by chanting slogans including "Orbán out! ", "Europe", "Democracy" and "Regime change". This event marked the end of demonstrations against the proposed Internet tax, however protests have continued in other subjects (against corruption, reorganization of road taxes, luxury lifestyle of some leading Fidesz politicians etc.)


2014 Hungarian Internet tax protests, Background and analysis
Some media outlets speculated about the possible reasons behind the fact that the demonstrations are the largest anti-government events since the protests in 2006 against then-ruling socialist party MSZP. Fidesz won the elections in 2010, gaining supermajority in the parliament, making them being able to pass or change legislation without hindrance from opposing political forces. They also won again in the 2014 election. Party chairman and prime minister Viktor Orbán used this political power to introduce several changes according to his political visions, like economic opening towards nations Eastward outside the European Union, notably Russia. Fidesz also crafted the new constitution of Hungary (now referred to as the "Fundamental Law of Hungary") on the basis that the existing one was a legacy after the fall of communism in 1989, being a heavily modified version of the communist-era constitution adopted to a democratic, capitalist state.


2014 Hungarian Internet tax protests, Background and analysis
Possible reasons for the demonstrations' popularity include Fidesz's austerity measures and new taxes affecting the telecommunications, energy, and banking sectors, the dissolution of the private pension system, the adoption of a new constitution crafted solely by Fidesz, the approval of the new "Media Law", the decision to agree with Russia about a loan to support the two-reactor expansion of the Paks Nuclear Power Plant, and the allegedly corrupt nationalization of tobacco shops. Two focal issues which demonstrators are well aware of are the corruption accusations of government-related officials by the United States government, and the fact that Fidesz itself opposed and criticized a similar internet tax when rival MSZP considered it in 2008.


2014 Hungarian Internet tax protests, Background and analysis
According to the Medián's public opinion poll published on 10 December 2014 support for Fidesz–KDNP government coalition dropped by 12 percentage points (from 38 to 26%) among all voters, following mass demonstrations against the Internet tax proposal and US-introduced entry ban on six Hungarian officials. Fidesz lost more than 900,000 potential voters and this was the largest monthly decrease since the Őszöd speech when MSZP suffered serious loss of support. In the following months, Fidesz also lost its two-thirds majority when Veszprém individual seat was taken by Zoltán Kész, an independent candidate in a by-election. Another by-election on 12 April 2015 saw the supermajority lose a second seat, also in Veszprém, to a Jobbik candidate. Only the far-right Jobbik was able to take advantage of the decline of support for the Fidesz.


2014 Hungarian Internet tax protests, Background and analysis
Protests were organized by non-governmental organizations (NGO) and private individuals excluding the opposition parties who only responded to the events. Demonstration organizers also emphasized party logos, banners, slogans not to present at the events. As a result, former Prime Minister Ferenc Gyurcsány criticized the demonstrators. However pro-government media claimed, in fact, opposition parties were behind the protests. Pesti Srácok.hu called the organizers as "pseudo-civil activists" as Gulyás was formerly a member of the Socialist Party, while Zoltán Vajda, leader of "Sixty Thousand For the Private Pension Funds" Facebook group was an Együtt–PM candidate during the 2014 municipal elections. In June 2015, the anti-government protesters formed the New Hungarian Republic (ÚMK) civil organization and announced referendum initiatives in a number of issues.


2014 Hungarian local elections
Hungarian local elections were held in Hungary on October 12, 2014. It was the first local election according to the new Constitution of Hungary which went into force on 1 January 2012. The new electoral law entered into force that day.


2014 Hungarian parliamentary election
The 2014 Hungarian parliamentary election took place on 6 April 2014. This parliamentary election was the 7th since the 1990 first multi-party election. The result was a victory for the Fidesz–KDNP alliance, preserving its two-thirds majority, with Viktor Orbán remaining Prime Minister. It was the first election under the new Constitution of Hungary which came into force on 1 January 2012. The new electoral law also entered into force that day. For the first time since Hungary's transition to democracy, the election had a single round. The voters elected 199 MPs instead of the previous 386 lawmakers.


2014 Hungarian parliamentary election, Background
After the 2010 parliamentary election, Fidesz won a landslide victory, with Viktor Orbán being elected as Prime Minister. As a result of this election, his government was able to alter the National Constitution, as he garnered a two-thirds majority. The government was able to write a constitutional article that favored traditional marriages, as well as one that lowered the number of MPs elected from 386 to 199.


2014 Hungarian parliamentary election, Background
Orbán and his government remained relatively popular in the months leading to the election. This was largely because of high GDP growth, increased industrial output, and a growth in the tourism sector.


2014 Hungarian parliamentary election, Background, New constitution and electoral law
In 2010, a new government led by Fidesz initiated a drafting process for a new constitution. On 18 April 2011, parliament approved the constitution on a 262–44 vote, with Fidesz and their Christian Democrat coalition partners in favor and Jobbik opposed. The Hungarian Socialist Party (MSZP) and Politics Can Be Different (LMP), citing the ruling party's unwillingness to compromise on issues and their inability to change the outcome, boycotted both the drafting process and the vote. On 25 April, President Pál Schmitt signed the document into law, and it entered into force on the first day of 2012. The enactment came halfway through Hungary's six-month Presidency of the Council of the European Union.


2014 Hungarian parliamentary election, Background, New constitution and electoral law
A new electoral law was also passed on 23 December 2011. The Fidesz and its coalition partner Christian Democratic People's Party (KDNP) unilaterally approved the new bill, using their two-thirds majority, ignoring the left-wing opposition's (MSZP and LMP) protests, while Jobbik voted against it. The NGO Political Capital noted in its analysis that the newly-adopted law "shifts the election system towards the majoritarian principle", which may be the cause of possible future "disproportional" outcomes in favour of individual parliamentary seats, resulting an emergence of voting method like first-past-the-post voting (FPTP). Nevertheless, Political Capital also emphasized that this tendency "however [can] not be interpreted as an injury to democracy."


2014 Hungarian parliamentary election, Background, Voter registration plan
On 26 November 2012, Fidesz used its supermajority to pass legislation revising eligibility for voting. Accordingly, the citizens, who had to right to vote, should have been involved in a pre-registration process no later than 15 days before polling day "in order to spare politically indifferent citizens from the election campaign", as Fidesz officials said. According to critics, this process would have made it harder to vote the party out of power, while also threatened free suffrage with the determination of the time limit.


2014 Hungarian parliamentary election, Background, Voter registration plan
Four members of the Democratic Coalition (DK), including its leader, former Prime Minister Ferenc Gyurcsány, had participated in a week-long hunger strike, protesting against the proposed voter registration plan, while President János Áder, who took the office after the resignation of Schmitt and himself was also a Fidesz member, sent the bill to the Constitutional Court.


2014 Hungarian parliamentary election, Background, Voter registration plan
On 3 January 2013, the Court ruled that the law curtailed voting rights to an "unjustifiable degree", due to the fact that the requirement for voters to register prior to going to the polls applies to every voter. The court also argued the limitation of campaign advertisings into the public broadcasting (Magyar Televízió and its partners), the proposed bans of political advertisements on cinemas during the campaign as well as prohibition of opinion polls in the last six days of the campaign "threatens" the freedom of speech in Hungary, in addition to its unconstitutional nature.


2014 Hungarian parliamentary election, Background, Voter registration plan
After the court's decision the head of the Fidesz parliamentary group, Antal Rogán, announced his party "would drop the proposal" and they will not introduce it for the 2014 parliamentary election, despite the fact that some party members had considered just before the court's ruling that is possible that constitutional amendments can take place in order to pass the bill.


2014 Hungarian parliamentary election, Background, Party splits after 2010 election
After the 2010 local elections, held on 3 October, Katalin Szili, former Speaker of the National Assembly founded the Social Union party and became its first chairperson. As a result, she quit the Hungarian Socialist Party (MSZP) and the party's parliamentary group, continuing her work as a formally independent MP. In October 2011, a group of members of the MSZP around former Prime Minister Ferenc Gyurcsány left the party and founded the Democratic Coalition (DK) after one year of tension and disagreement. Ten members of the parliament, including Gyurcsány, also left the MSZP parliamentary group and became independent MPs.


2014 Hungarian parliamentary election, Background, Party splits after 2010 election
Gyurcsány said the cause of secession was that the MSZP "had failed in its efforts to transform itself". His former Socialist colleagues strongly condemned his step, as Gyurcsány signed a statement not to quit the party, swearing allegiance to the new party leadership just one week before leaving. At the introduction of his new movement, Gyurcsány called the new constitution as "illegitimate", and charged that all branches of power such as the Constitutional Court, Chief Prosecutor Péter Polt and other units of the judicial system "exclusively serve Viktor Orbán".


2014 Hungarian parliamentary election, Background, Party splits after 2010 election
Since its establishment and 2010 national election, LMP was kept under pressure (for instance, on the occasion of by-elections) by the Hungarian Socialist Party to achieve some kind of electoral compromise and cooperation against Viktor Orbán's government. The leadership of the LMP positioned the party to the centre, and, as a newcomer, rejected both Fidesz and MSZP's politics. Prominent party member András Schiffer also criticized the previous Socialist cabinets, blaming Gyurcsány's "disastrous governance" for Fidesz winning a two-thirds majority in 2010. However prominent politicians in LMP were divided on the issue of cooperation.


2014 Hungarian parliamentary election, Background, Party splits after 2010 election
During the party's congress in November 2012, LMP decided not to join Together 2014, the planned electoral alliance of opposition parties and movements led by Gordon Bajnai. As a result, Benedek Jávor, a proponent of the agreement, resigned from his position of parliamentary group leader. Jávor and his supporters (including Tímea Szabó and Gergely Karácsony) founded a platform within the party, called "Dialogue for Hungary" on 26 November 2012. The platform argued in favour of conclusion of an electoral agreement with Bajnai's movement in order to replace "Orbán's regime".


2014 Hungarian parliamentary election, Background, Party splits after 2010 election
In January 2013, the LMP's congress rejected again the electoral cooperation with other opposition parties, including Together 2014. As a result, members of the party's "Dialogue for Hungary" platform left LMP to form a new political organization. Benedek Jávor announced the eight leaving MPs would not resign from their parliamentary seats, while seven parliamentarians (Schiffer's supporters) remained in the party. The leaving MPs founded the Dialogue for Hungary as an officially registered party in March 2013. On 8 March 2013, the PM established an electoral coalition with the Together, which was formed as a political party on that day.


2014 Hungarian parliamentary election, Background, Party splits after 2010 election
In January 2013, two independent MPs who were elected from the Jobbik's national list but were expelled or resigned from the party earlier (Zsolt Endrésik and Ernő Rozgonyi) announced that they would henceforth represent the Hungarian Justice and Life Party (MIÉP) in the National Assembly. MIÉP had parliamentary representation the last time in 2002.


2014 Hungarian parliamentary election, Background, Opposition cooperation negotiations
Gordon Bajnai, who served as Prime Minister between 2009 and 2010, preceding Orbán, announced his return to politics on 23 October 2012, during the anti-government demonstration of the One Million for Press Freedom (Milla) non-governmental organization. On the protest, he called for an anti-Orbán coalition so as to form a supermajority in Parliament with the help of which the changes done by Orbán's ruling party, Fidesz could be undone.


2014 Hungarian parliamentary election, Background, Opposition cooperation negotiations
In his speech, Bajnai repeatedly used a variant of the term ("We may fail on our own, but together, we shall prove victorious! "), when he proclaimed his support for such a "cooperation between hopeful left-wingers, disappointed rightwingers, politically abandoned free-thinkers and committed Greens" that his organization along with two other civilian body named Together 2014 as a reference to the date of the next general elections in Hungary. In December 2012, Bajnai announced that he intends to become a Member of Parliament in the 2014 national election. Medián polled 22 then 16 percent for the first time to the Together movement among the "certain" voters in their two November surveys. Several scholars criticized the Medián's questioning method which was different from previous ones, suspecting a political intent behind the surveys.


2014 Hungarian parliamentary election, Background, Opposition cooperation negotiations
According to plans, Together 2014 would have been an umbrella organization of centre-left parties, similar to the Olive Tree in Italy which established against Silvio Berlusconi's right-wing coalition in 1995. However LMP had rejected the cooperation in November 2012 and January 2013, and the Socialists led by Attila Mesterházy gradually took over the initiative. Consequently, the Together movement transformed itself into party on 8 March 2013, as only parties could take part in the election according to the rules. On the same day, the Dialogue for Hungary, which was founded by deserters from the LMP, has established an electoral coalition with the Together.


2014 Hungarian parliamentary election, Background, Opposition cooperation negotiations, 2013 agreement
In late August 2013, Socialist and Together party leaders agreed to nominate joint individual candidates in each constituency, but would register separate national lists for the upcoming parliamentary election. To avoid the escalation of personal conflicts of interest, they decided not to appoint a joint candidate for the position of Prime Minister; it was announced that party leader, whose party would become the strongest government force following the election, will automatically gain the office.


2014 Hungarian parliamentary election, Background, Opposition cooperation negotiations, 2013 agreement
Socialist leader Attila Mesterházy told public television M1 that the electoral alliance between the MSZP and the E14–PM on fielding a single centre-left candidate in each individual constituency provides the right basis for success. Mesterházy and Bajnai agreed MSZP will field candidates in 75 out of all the country's 106 individual constituencies and the E14–PM in the remaining 31. The agreement was sharply criticised by the Democratic Coalition, which was excluded from the cooperation. Gyurcsány called it as a "failure" and said that party leaders Mesterházy and Bajnai "spoofed themselves, us and, finally, the democratic Hungary".


2014 Hungarian parliamentary election, Background, Opposition cooperation negotiations, 2013 agreement
Fidesz spokesman Péter Hoppál said this agreement showed that the opposition parties were unable to learn from their own past mistakes. "They were fired by the majority of voters [in 2010] not because they were leftists but because they placed their personal ambitions above the interests of the country", he added.


2014 Hungarian parliamentary election, Background, Opposition cooperation negotiations, 2013 agreement
In September 2013, the Socialist Party declined to sign an election deal with the Democratic Coalition and Gábor Fodor's Hungarian Liberal Party because "both parties presented excessive expectations compared to their social support", according to Attila Mesterházy. The party chairman told a forum held at the party HQ, broadcast by left-wing commercial news channel ATV, that in order to win next year's election, the Socialists need to win over uncertain voters. The party board declared that running with Gyurcsány, one of the most unpopular politicians, would keep uncertain voters away, he added.


2014 Hungarian parliamentary election, Background, Opposition cooperation negotiations, 2013 agreement
In response, Gyurcsány said the MSZP had proposed cooperation in four instead of nine constituencies, all of which were impossible to win. In addition they offered every 25th place on their party list and would have banned Gyurcsány himself from running either individually or on a list. Another request was that DK should not present a platform of its own, while nominating its candidates to the MSZP national list. The party could not accept these conditions, the politician said.


2014 Hungarian parliamentary election, Background, Opposition cooperation negotiations, 2014 agreement
Gordon Bajnai said on 6 January 2014, he plans to hold talks with Socialist Party on expanding and further developing an agreement between the opposition parties. "We must give back faith in victory to all those that want a change of government. We believe that this requires the closest cooperation, with the possibility of a joint list, between opposition forces with considerable public support. In order to achieve this, each participant must make sacrifices," the party said in a statement sent to MTI, quoting a recent television interview with Bajnai.


2014 Hungarian parliamentary election, Background, Opposition cooperation negotiations, 2014 agreement
This meant creating an opportunity to include DK in the electoral cooperation made the last year. Following that the two parties began negotiations to expand their electoral agreement; "we should make every possible effort to oust Fidesz from power, and reach an agreement that would help canvas undecided voters", said Viktor Szigetvári, co-leader of the Together 2014. "There should be a single left-wing candidate in each of the 106 constituencies, and no vote cast on an opposition candidate should go lost", he added.


2014 Hungarian parliamentary election, Background, Opposition cooperation negotiations, 2014 agreement
The Socialist Party and the Together concluded an agreement on 8 January 2014 in order to set a joint list for the upcoming parliamentary election. Accordingly, MSZP acquired the right to nominate the common prime minister, likely to be Attila Mesterházy, who has previously expressed his intention to run for the office. Mesterházy announced they will propose to join the Democratic Coalition and he said the agreement could succeed. Ferenc Gyurcsány welcomed the agreement and said DK is ready to begin tripartite negotiations immediately. Gyurcsány also announced on Facebook that he would interrupt his freedom abroad and travel home immediately. These took place already the next day. Because of Gyurcsány's involvement, Péter Juhász, the leader of the Milla (a component of the Together alliance) offered his resignation and stepped down from his party's national list (but remained an individual candidate in Belváros-Lipótváros).


2014 Hungarian parliamentary election, Background, Opposition cooperation negotiations, 2014 agreement
Fidesz spokeswoman Gabriella Selmeczi called the left-wing party list "completely irrelevant" for the election, because "they are all the same old people, with no new face among them." She said that "they are the same people who have already ruined Hungary once." The radical nationalist Jobbik said the agreement between the Socialists and Together–PM demonstrated the "rebirth of the coalition of lies." In the current situation, Hungarian voters can only choose between the politicians who destroyed Hungary in the past 24 years (i.e. Fidesz and left-wing opposition) or Jobbik that will bring a change, spokeswoman Dóra Dúró said.


2014 Hungarian parliamentary election, Background, Opposition cooperation negotiations, 2014 agreement
"When replacing Orbán's government, Jobbik will not bring Gyurcsány back to power", she added. The minor opposition LMP party will not enter any electoral alliance with political forces that used to be in power, party co-leader András Schiffer emphasized. He added, the green party insists on its original position and offers an alternative to those who wished the Gyurcsány and Bajnai governments "would go to hell" in 2010 and also to those who are now fed up with the "regime of national cynicism." (i.e. the Orbán government).


2014 Hungarian parliamentary election, Background, Opposition cooperation negotiations, 2014 agreement
On 14 January 2014, the left-wing opposition parties agreed to submit a joint list for the spring general election, party leaders announced during a press conference. Accordingly, the national list was headed by MSZP party chairman Attila Mesterházy, who also became candidate of the electoral cooperation for the position of prime minister. In the national list, Mesterházy was followed by two former prime ministers, Gordon Bajnai, informal leader of the Together–Dialogue alliance and Ferenc Gyurcsány, leader of the Democratic Coalition (DK).


2014 Hungarian parliamentary election, Background, Opposition cooperation negotiations, 2014 agreement
Gábor Fodor, leader of the minor extra-parliamentary Hungarian Liberal Party was put to the fourth place, while co-chair of the Together–Dialogue alliance Tímea Szabó came to the fifth place on the joint list of the five opposition parties. Under the agreement, the Socialists were able to nominate their candidates in 71 individual constituencies, while the Together–PM altogether 22 and DK 13. Antal Rogán, leader of the Fidesz parliamentary group, said the result of the agreement is that the Hungarian left has been unable to nominate "a real prime minister candidate" or "present any new face," according to MTI.


2014 Hungarian parliamentary election, Electoral system
The electoral laws were changed in 2012. The following significant changes have been issued in the electoral system:


2014 Hungarian parliamentary election, Electoral system
Every citizen has two votes – one to vote for a constituency candidate and one to vote for a party list. The 106 constituency seats are distributed by a one-round plurality system, meaning simply, that the candidate receiving most votes gets elected (compared to the previous two-round majority-plurality system). The distribution of 93 party-list seats is based both on the results of the party and constituency votes. To total of the votes for party-lists, some constituency-votes are added. This happens in two ways:


2014 Hungarian parliamentary election, Electoral system
Minorities, that will not reach the 5% threshold (out of all minority-list votes, not out of all votes) or will not get at least one seat, will be able to send a minority spokesman to the National Assembly from 2014, who has right only to speak but not to vote.


2014 Hungarian parliamentary election, Electoral system
The obtaining one seat out of 93 is much more difficult for minorities than reaching the 5% threshold for minority votes because a seat represents slightly more than 1% of all party and minority lists (while 5% of minority votes are expected to be much less than 1% of all votes, as the number of minority voters is well below 20%). This minority spokesperson solution gives minorities the opportunity to speak in Parliament, even if they are unable to obtain about 1% of all votes. In practice, the German and Roma minorities have a chance to obtain MPs (according to the latest census), and the other 13 minorities will have a minority spokesperson, guaranteeing their representation in parliament.


2014 Hungarian parliamentary election, Electoral system
The right to vote is first extended to Hungarian citizens who do not have a permanent residence in Hungary (i.e. mostly the Hungarian diaspora in the neighboring countries); however, they can only vote for the national list of Hungarian parties, so they do not have a chance to vote in individual constituencies.


2014 Hungarian parliamentary election, Candidates, Individual candidates
The National Election Office announced that a total of 2,304 candidates submitted the required number of nominations for the parliamentary election by the 3 p.m. deadline on 4 March. The candidacy of 1,531 people was accepted after completion of the registration process. The following table contains a selected list of numbers of individual candidates by county representation and party affiliation:


2014 Hungarian parliamentary election, Candidates, National lists
Under the new election law, parties which ran individual candidates in at least 27 constituencies in Budapest and at least nine counties had the opportunity to set up a national list. On 21 February 2014, the National Election Committee (NVB) registered at first the joint list of the governing Fidesz–KDNP party alliance, led by PM Viktor Orbán and KDNP president Zsolt Semjén.


2014 Hungarian parliamentary election, Candidates, National lists
Eighteen national party lists were registered up to 8 March 2014, when the National Election Office (NVI) approved the following 14 organizations (parties and electoral alliances), in addition to the parliamentary parties (Fidesz–KDNP, Unity, Jobbik and LMP), which had already successfully registered: Homeland Not For Sale Movement Party (HNEM), the communist Hungarian Workers' Party, Party for a Fit and Healthy Hungary (SEM), Andor Schmuck's Social Democratic Civic Party (Soc Dems), the former long-time parliamentary party Independent Smallholders, Agrarian Workers and Civic Party (FKGP), former House Speaker and Socialist party member Katalin Szili's Community for Social Justice People's Party (KTI), Gypsy Party of Hungary (MCP), Party of Greens (Greens), New Dimension Party (ÚDP), New Hungary Party (ÚMP), Together 2014 Party, Democratic Community of Welfare and Freedom (JESZ), Unity Party (ÖP) and Alliance of Mária Seres (SMS). The following table contains only the incumbent parliamentary parties' national lists (first 20 members), which won mandates in the election:


2014 Hungarian parliamentary election, Candidates, National lists
1. Viktor Orbán (Fidesz)2. Zsolt Semjén (KDNP)3. László Kövér (Fidesz)4. Márta Mátrai (Fidesz)5. Mihály Varga (Fidesz)6. Lajos Kósa (Fidesz)7. János Lázár (Fidesz)8. Antal Rogán (Fidesz)9. Tibor Navracsics (Fidesz)10. Péter Harrach (KDNP)11. Sándor Lezsák (Fidesz)12. István Jakab (Fidesz)13. Balázs Győrffy (Fidesz)14. Béla Turi-Kovács (Fidesz)15. Kristóf Szatmáry (Fidesz)16. Péter Ágh (Fidesz)17. Flórián Farkas (Fidesz)18. Sándor Fazekas (Fidesz)19. Zoltán Balog (Fidesz)20. Csaba Hende (Fidesz)


2014 Hungarian parliamentary election, Candidates, National lists
1. Attila Mesterházy (MSZP)2. Gordon Bajnai (E14)3. Ferenc Gyurcsány (DK)4. Gábor Fodor (MLP)5. Tímea Szabó (PM)6. László Botka (MSZP)7. József Tóbiás (MSZP)8. Nándor Gúr (MSZP)9. Tamás Harangozó (MSZP)10. Zsolt Molnár (MSZP)11. Zoltán Lukács (MSZP)12. István Hiller (MSZP)13. Ágnes Kunhalmi (MSZP)14. Árpád Velez (MSZP)15. László Szakács (MSZP)16. Péter Kónya (E14)17. Lajos Korózs (MSZP)18. Zsolt Legény (MSZP)19. Csaba Molnár (DK)20. Ildikó Bangó-Borbély (MSZP)


2014 Hungarian parliamentary election, Candidates, National lists
1. Gábor Vona2. Zoltán Balczó3. János Volner4. Dóra Dúró5. Tamás Sneider6. Dániel Z. Kárpát7. Márton Gyöngyösi8. Csaba Gyüre9. Gergely Farkas10. Enikő Hegedűs11. Előd Novák12. Ádám Mirkóczki13. György Szilágyi14. István Apáti15. István Szávay16. Gábor Staudt17. Zoltán Magyar18. Tibor Bana19. Zsolt Egyed20. Balázs Ander


2014 Hungarian parliamentary election, Candidates, National lists
1. András Schiffer2. Bernadett Szél3. István Ikotity4. Róbert Benedek Sallai5. Erzsébet Schmuck6. László Lóránt Keresztes7. Ferenc Gerstmár8. Szilvia Lengyel9. Ákos Csarnó10. László Moldován11. Andrea Gecsei-Tóth12. Kálmán Tibor Kiss13. Lajos Mile14. Mária Hajdu15. Tamás Jakabfy16. János Barta17. Judit Rákosi18. Ernő Pető19. Péter Takács20. Katalin Csiba


2014 Hungarian parliamentary election, Candidates, Minority lists
Under the election law, the thirteen officially recognized national minorities are entitled to send minority spokespersons (Hungarian: nemzetiségi szószólók) to the National Assembly. They have the same rights as other parliamentarians to address the parliament, but are not entitled to vote. However the minorities could also each set up national lists. If any such national list reached the 5% electoral threshold from minority votes, this would entitle them to full-fledged representatives.


2014 Hungarian parliamentary election, Candidates, Minority lists
The Polish minority list was the first minority list to be successfully registered by the National Election Committee (NVB), on 25 February 2014. Two days later, on 27 February, the NVB registered three other national lists: those for the German, Rusyn and Serb minorities, and then approved the lists of Armenians and Romanians on 1 March, Bulgarians and Slovaks on 3 March, Croats, Ukrainians and Romani people on 4 March, and, finally, Greeks and Slovenes on 7 March.


2014 Hungarian parliamentary election, Candidates, Minority lists
The officially recognized minority self-government organizations received a total of 298.5 million Ft (EUR 954,000) of public support for campaign activity. The National Roma Council was awarded a significant portion of the funds – altogether 101 million forints – while the Bulgarians granted the lowest amount (8.4 million), according to official demographic ratios.


2014 Hungarian parliamentary election, Opinion polls
Methodological note: The Hungarian pollsters generally release separate data on the support of political parties among all eligible voters (which tends to include a high percentage for "don't know/no preference"), and on the support of political parties among "active" or "certain" voters. The table below refers to the latter data.


2014 Hungarian parliamentary election, Results, Evaluation of the elections, Domestic
Fidesz's leader Viktor Orbán celebrated in Budapest with thousands of supporters in the evening and said that Hungary was on the threshold of a "new and wonderful epoch".


2014 Hungarian parliamentary election, Results, Evaluation of the elections, Domestic
Jobbik leader Gábor Vona said that the party is now the "strongest national radical party" in the EU, as well as Hungary’s second largest political party". Jobbik continuously increases it popularity and ahead of the European parliament elections it is important to make this clear. [ Yet even though] we outperformed pollsters’ expectations, but we were not able to achieve the goal we set for ourselves of winning the elections".


2014 Hungarian parliamentary election, Results, Evaluation of the elections, Domestic
One of the five party alliance's leaders, Gordon Bajnai, said the result was a "crushing defeat" and a "great disappointment" for those who wanted change.


2014 Hungarian parliamentary election, Results, International
The Office for Democratic Institutions and Human Rights Limited Election Observation Mission found that the elections were "efficiently administered and offered voters a diverse choice following an inclusive candidate registration process" but that Fidesz "enjoyed an undue advantage because of restrictive campaign regulations, biased media coverage and campaign activities that blurred the separation between political party and the State".


2014 Hungaroring GP2 Series round
The 2014 Hungary GP2 Series round was a pair of motor races held on July 26 and 27, 2014 at the Hungaroring in Budapest, Hungary as part of the GP2 Series. It is the sixth round of the 2014 season. The race weekend supported the 2014 Hungarian Grand Prix.


2014 Hungaroring GP2 Series round, Report, GP2 qualifying
Going into the qualifying session, Felipe Nasr was placed in second place in the overall championship. His target was of course to beat his championship rival Jolyon Palmer, but also to get that pole position and four crucial points that could make or break a championship title. In the end, Nasr qualified on pole position ahead of Tom Dillmann, with Palmer down in sixth place.


2014 Huntingdonshire District Council election
The 2014 Huntingdonshire District Council election took place on 22 May 2014 to elect members of Huntingdonshire District Council in Cambridgeshire, England. One third of the council was up for election and the Conservative Party stayed in overall control of the council.


2014 Huntingdonshire District Council election, Background
At the last election in 2012 the Conservatives stayed in control of the council with 39 seats, compared to 7 Liberal Democrats, 3 UK Independence Party, 2 independents and 1 for Labour. However, in early 2013 Conservative councillors, Ken Churchill from Little Paxton ward and Bob Farrer from St Neots Eaton Ford, left the Conservatives to become independents and then joined the UK Independence Party in November 2013. Subsequently in January 2014 another Conservative councillor, Colin Hyams of Godmanchester ward, defected to the Liberal Democrats.


2014 Huntingdonshire District Council election, Background
The changes meant that before the election the Conservatives had 35 councillors, Liberal Democrats 7, UK Independence Party 5, independents 3, Labour had 1 seat and 1 seat was vacant after the death of the Conservative councillor for Warboys and Bury, John Pethard. 17 of the 52 seats on the council were contested with 5 councillors, Terry Clough, Nick Guyatt, Colin Hyams, Terry Rogers and Alan Williams, standing down at the election.


2014 Huntingdonshire District Council election, Election result
The Conservatives stayed in control of the council after winning 11 of the 17 seats contested, but lost 1 seat to the UK Independence Party in Yaxley and Farcet. The UK Independence Party also gained a seat from the Liberal Democrats in Huntingdon East by 34 votes to end the election with 7 councillors. The only other change came in Buckden where independent Terry Hayward won a seat, which had formerly been held by Liberal Democrat William Clough before he stood down at the election. These defeats reduced the Liberal Democrats to 5 seats on the council, but Sarah Conboy did hold Godmanchester for the party after Colin Hyams, who had defected to the Liberal Democrats from the Conservatives earlier in 2014, stood down.


2014 Huntingdonshire District Council election, By-elections between 2014 and 2015, Warboys and Bury
A by-election took place in Warboys and Bury on 7 August 2014 after the death of Conservative councillor John Pethard. The seat was held for the Conservatives by Angie Curtis with a majority of 59 votes over the UK Independence Party.


2014 Huntingdonshire District Council election, By-elections between 2014 and 2015, St Neots Priory Park
A by-election was held on in St Neots Priory Park on 27 November 2014 after the death of Conservative councillor Paula Longford. The seat was held for the Conservatives by Ian Gardener with a majority of 111 votes over the UK Independence Party.


2014 Huron County municipal elections
Elections took place in Huron County, Ontario on October 27, 2014 in conjunction with municipal elections across the province.


2014 Huron County municipal elections, Huron County Council
Huron County Council consists of the Mayors and Reeves of each constituent municipality, plus deputy mayors, deputy reeves for all municipalities except Howick, Morris-Turnberry and North Huron


2014 Huron County municipal elections, Huron County Council
For the 2014 election, Huron County Council will be reduced from 16 to 15 councillors, with the removal of one council seat from Bluewater.


2014 Hwaebul Cup
The 2014 Hwaebul Cup was the second edition of the Hwaebul Cup (홰불, Torch) celebrating North Korea's Youth Day. The competition was held between 10 and 28 August 2013, with all matches played at the Yanggakdo Stadium in P'yŏngyang. The competition was arranged in two phases, a group stage followed by a single-elimination play-off semi-finals, and a single-game final.


2014 Hwaebul Cup, Group Stage
Thirteen teams took part in the group stage, with seven in Group A and six in Group B.


2014 Hwaebul Cup, Group Stage, Group A
Group A was made up of Hwaebul, Kyŏnggong'ŏp, Kwanmobong, Wŏlmido, April 25, Amrokkang, and Ryong'aksan. The group stage opened with a match between Hwaebul and Kyŏnggong'ŏp on 10 August. Hwaebul, considered heavy favourites at the start of the tournament, won with a convincing 3-0 score, going on to win their next three matches against Kwanmobong (5-0), Wŏlmido and April 25 (1-0). April 25 had started out the competition by winning their first four matches, 4-1 against Amrokkang, 3-1 against Kyŏnggong'ŏp, 3-0 against Ryong'aksan, and 3-0 against Kwanmobong. Ryong'aksan had started off with a 3-2 win over Kwanmobong, whilst Wŏlmido and Amrokkang drew 1-1 in their opening match. Hwaebul and April 25 went on to advance to the semi-finals.


2014 Hwaebul Cup, Group Stage, Group B
Group B included Sobaeksu, P'yŏngyang City, Myohyangsan, Ponghwasan, Rimyŏngsu, and one other club. Rimyŏngsu had been tipped as favourites, but the opening match of the group, that they played against Sobaeksu, surprised observers with a 3-2 result in favour of Sobaeksu on 15 August. The group was topped by Sobaeksu and P'yŏngyang City, both of which had had two wins and two draws in their first four matches.


2014 Hwaebul Cup, Semi-finals
Hwaebul and April 25 qualified for the semi-finals from Group A, and Sobaeksu and P'yŏngyang City from Group B; the first place finisher of each group played the second-place team from the other group. April 25 and Hwaebul won their matches to advance to the final.


2014 Hwaebul Cup, Final
Hwaebul and April 25 advanced to the final, which was played at Yanggakdo Stadium on 28 August, with April 25 emerging victorious with a 1-0 score.


2014 Hyndburn Borough Council election
Elections to Hyndburn Borough Council were held on 22 May 2014. One third of the council was up for election and the Labour party stayed in overall control of the council.


2014 Hyndburn Borough Council election
The total registered electorate across Hyndburn comes to 43,404 potential voters. In this May 2014 election 16,766 turned out to vote - 38.63%.


2014 Hyndburn Borough Council election
There was also the European Election being held on the same day and voter turnout, across ALL voters in every Hyndburn-Ward, was much higher than usual.


2014 Hyndburn Borough Council election, Background
Before the election Labour had a majority of 23 councillors, Conservatives had 9 councillors, while Independent (politician) had 3 councillors.


2014 Hyndburn Borough Council election, Background
Labour and UKIP candidates contested for every ward, Conservative candidates contested all except Milnshaw-ward & Peel-Ward, only four Independent candidates contested in the Clayton-le-Moors-ward, Netherton-ward, Peel-ward & Rishton-ward and just three Green candidates contested for Huncoat-ward, Overton-Ward & Peel-ward.


2014 Hyndburn Borough Council election, Local Election result
The majority grouping of councillors was as the headline result of the election, with Labour's majority unchanged, Independent and Conservative councillors having lost one seat each overall, and UKIP gaining two new seats:


2014 Hyndburn Borough Council election, Local Election result
After the election, the composition of the council was -


2014 Hyndburn Borough Council election, Local Election result
NB: Five (of the 16) Council ward seats that were NOT up for re-election in 2014 included the following wards - Altham, Baxenden and Church, plus Barnfield and Central in Accrington. Although voters across those same Five wards, were also still able to vote in the European Election.


2014 I-League 2nd Division
The 2014 I-League 2nd Division was the seventh season of the I-League 2nd Division under its current title. The season began on February 7, 2014. It contained 11 clubs in two groups and twelfth club United Sikkim F.C. directly entered into final round. Royal Wahingdoh F.C. won the tournament and will be promoted to 2014–15 I-League.


2014 I-League 2nd Division Final Round
The 2014 I-League 2nd Division Final Round is the seventh final round of the I-League 2nd Division. The tournament began after the group stage was completed on 18 February 2014. Royal Wahingdoh F.C. won the tournament and will be promoted to 2014–15 I-League.


2014 I-League 2nd Division Final Round, Format
United Sikkim are given direct entry to the final around, as they were relegated from 2012–13 I-League. Royal Wahingdoh F.C. and Kalighat Milan Sangha F.C. qualified from Group A and Bhawanipore F.C. and Hindustan F.C. qualified from group B.


2014 I-League U19
The 2014 I-League U19 was the sixth season of the Indian I-League U19 competition. The season ran alongside the 2013–14 I-League season. Pune F.C. were defending champions, but were knocked out in zonal stage. Tata Football Academy won the league.


2014 I-League U19
The League was played in a new format and had 29 teams contest for top honours in a two-tier run to the title. The five zones include, Kolkata, Mumbai, Shillong, Goa and Rest of India. The four city-named zones engaged themselves in a home-away format with the winner advancing to the final leg was held in Jamshedpur. The Rest of India zone played a single-leg in Jamshedpur that began on 8 April with the Top 2 advancing. On 8 January 2014 Mumbai Tigers U19 pulled out from the tournament. The league began on 10 February.


2014 I-League U19
The Final-leg of the I-League U19, which included 6 teams was held in mid-April in Jamshedpur and played on a single-leg.


2014 IAAF Combined Events Challenge
The 2014 IAAF Combined Events Challenge was a series of combined events for decathletes and heptathletes consisting of five stand alone challenge events, a series of continental combined events championships, and the combined events portions of a series of international athletics championships and multi-sports games. The challenge is organised under the auspices of the world governing body of athletics, the International Association of Athletics Federations (IAAF).


2014 IAAF Combined Events Challenge
Elite level competitors were crowned champions based on the aggregate points scored in three of the events. The total prize money available is US$202,000, split evenly between male and female athletes. The male and female winners each receive $30,000, while second and third placed athletes are entitled to $20,000 and $15,000 respectively. Smaller prizes are given to the rest of the top eight finishers.


2014 IAAF Combined Events Challenge, Calendar
The 2014 challenge takes in five challenge events, a number of regional combined events championships, and the combined events portions of a series of regional and international athletics championships.


2014 IAAF Combined Events Challenge, Overall
These are the overall rankings for all athletes who participated in three or more events.


2014 IAAF Continental Cup
The 2014 IAAF Continental Cup was an international track and field sporting event that was held in Marrakech, Morocco, on 13–14 September 2014.


2014 IAAF Continental Cup
It was the second edition of the IAAF Continental Cup since the name and format was changed from the IAAF World Cup.


2014 IAAF Continental Cup, Format
The four teams competing in the event was Africa, the Americas, Asia-Pacific and Europe. The two-day competition comprised a programme of 20 track and field events for men and women, giving a total of 40 events. Each team shall enter two athletes in each event, except for relays where one team competed, with a maximum of one athlete from each country per event. No athlete shall be allowed to double in the 3000 m and 5000 m.


2014 IAAF Continental Cup – Results
These are the results of the 2014 IAAF Continental Cup, which took place in Marrakech, Morocco on 13–14 September 2014.


2014 IAAF Hammer Throw Challenge
The 2014 IAAF Hammer Throw Challenge was the fifth edition of the annual, global series of hammer throw competitions organised by the International Association of Athletics Federations. The winners were Krisztián Pars of Hungary (244.84 metres) and Anita Włodarczyk (232.52 metres) of Poland. This was Włodarczyk's second title, defending her win from the previous year, and a third career win for Pars (the 2011 and 2012 winner). Pars also regained the position of challenge record holder, improving on the total set by Paweł Fajdek in 2013. Włodarczyk was the stand out courtesy of her hammer throw world record of 79.58 m (261 ft 1 in) at the ISTAF Berlin meet.


2014 IAAF Hammer Throw Challenge
A total of thirteen meetings featured on the circuit, with eight women's and nine men's contests spread across those events. The point scoring format was cumulative – the final standings were decided by the sum of athletes' three best throws on the circuit. Only the best throw by an athlete from each meet was taken into consideration.


2014 IAAF Hammer Throw Challenge, Calendar
The 2014 series continued the model of the 2013 by featuring a combination of IAAF World Challenge meetings and non-IAAF meetings in Europe.


2014 IAAF Hammer Throw Challenge, Calendar
There were two new additions to the tour: the Mohammed VI Meeting de Marrakesh and the Paavo Nurmi Games. The Grande Premio Brasil Caixa de Atletismo and Meeting Grand Prix IAAF de Dakar – long-standing presences – were dropped from the series. The Prefontaine Classic, a Diamond League meeting, did not return.


2014 IAAF Hammer Throw Challenge, Final standings, Men
A total of eleven men recorded valid marks at three meetings and made the final standings. Marks in bold are those which counted towards the final score.


2014 IAAF Hammer Throw Challenge, Final standings, Women
A total of twelve women recorded valid marks at three meetings and made the final standings. Marks in bold are those which counted towards the final score.


2014 IAAF Road Race Label Events
The 2014 IAAF Road Race Label Events were the seventh edition of the global series of road running competitions given Label status by the International Association of Athletics Federations (IAAF). All six World Marathon Majors had Gold Label status. The series included a total of 80 road races: 38 Gold, 24 Silver and 18 Bronze. In terms of distance, 50 races were marathons, 16 were half marathons, 10 were 10K runs, and 4 were held over other distances.


2014 IAAF World Challenge
The 2014 IAAF World Challenge was the fifth edition of the annual, global circuit of one-day track and field competitions organized by the International Association of Athletics Federations (IAAF). The series featured a total of thirteen meetings as the meeting – both the Moscow Challenge and IAAF World Challenge Dakar were dropped from the programme.


2014 IAAF World Half Marathon Championships
The 2014 IAAF World Half Marathon Championships took place on March 29, 2014. The races were held in Copenhagen, Denmark. The essentially flat one-loop course was beginning and ending in the city centre by Christiansborg Castle. Detailed reports on the event and an appraisal of the results were given both for the men's race and for the women's race.


2014 IAAF World Half Marathon Championships
Complete results were published for the men's race, for the women's race, for men's team, and for women's team.


2014 IAAF World Half Marathon Championships, Participation
An unofficial count yields the participation of 201 athletes from 56 countries. Although announced, the athletes from  Canada and  Palestine did not show.


2014 IAAF World Indoor Championships
The 2014 IAAF World Indoor Championships in Athletics was the fifteenth edition of the international indoor track and field competition, organised by the IAAF. The event was held between 7–9 March 2014 at the Ergo Arena in Sopot, Poland.


2014 IAAF World Indoor Championships, Preparation, Host bidding
The IAAF announced on 1 September 2011 that it had received bids from Poland and Croatia to host the championships. Later Zagreb, Croatia withdrew due to lack of funding. On 11 November 2011 at a Council meeting in Monaco, the IAAF announced that Sopot, as the only remaining bidder, would host the championships. Budapest, Hungary had shown interest but eventually did not bid.


2014 IAAF World Indoor Championships, Preparation, Venue
The Championships were held at the Ergo Arena, opened in 2010, on the border of the cities of Sopot and Gdańsk. For the Championships it  seated 11,000.


2014 IAAF World Indoor Championships, Preparation, Venue
For the competition a six-lane, banked 200-metre oval, with a blue surface, was installed on the arena floor, with an eight-lane straight-away track in the center for the 60-metre sprints and hurdles. The track officially opened on 16 February and almost 6000 people came to the ERGO Arena to mark its inauguration. The indoor portable banked track made by Mondo used the company's "Super X" rubberized surface (two layers, total 13.5 mm thick), which was used at both the 2008 and 2012 Summer Olympics. After the competition the track has been dismantled and moved permanently to the newly built indoor arena in Toruń.


2014 IAAF World Indoor Championships, Preparation, American television coverage
The IAAF again chose not to get wide coverage in the large United States market. Instead they sold exclusive rights to Universal Sports, a network associated with NBC Sports. Universal Sports can only be seen in about ten percent of the households in the American market. Universal Sports limited other distribution of the content, even online content requiring login with cable subscription user names. For those viewers without access to Universal Sports, nationwide coverage of the entire meet was blacked out. IAAF supported the blackout of coverage. Unlike previous World Championship meetings, IAAF's YouTube channel provided only post race interviews and no coverage of the actual events at the meet.


2014 IAAF World Indoor Championships, Disqualifications
A number of athletes were disqualified for stepping over the inside track boundary and onto the in-field. The most high profile of these disqualifications was Poland's Marcin Lewandowski in the men's 800 m final. The host nation athlete originally won the bronze medal but a single step on the in-field led to his disqualification and the promotion of Great Britain's Andrew Osagie into the third podium position.


2014 IAAF World Indoor Championships, Disqualifications
There was a similar occurrence in the women's 1500 m final, where Rababe Arafi took the bronze and she also received the honour in a medal ceremony. Half an hour afterwards, a review of race footage led to her being disqualified with Canada's Nicole Sifuentes being promoted to bronze position. Nick Willis, the original men's 1500 m fourth placer, was another high-profile disqualification.


2014 IAAF World Indoor Championships, Disqualifications
Outside of the in-field track infringements, there were a smaller number of disqualifications. Reflecting the more physical nature of indoor competition, Richard Buck, Lisanne de Witte and Ioan Zaizan were all disqualified for obstruction or jostling. Siologa Viliamu Sepa and Musaeb Abdulrahman Balla were removed for lane infringement, while Michael Herreros' performance was erased due to improper hurdling. No athletes fell foul of the false start rule.


2014 IAAF World Indoor Championships, Disqualifications, Doping
The Russian women's 4×400 m relay team was disqualified after Kseniya Ryzhovas doping sample from 7 March was found positive for trimetazidine. Nataliia Lupu (UKR) was disqualified from the Women's 800 meters after her doping sample was found positive for Methylhexaneamine. The Romanian shot putter Anca Heltne took part in the championships but was disqualified from all her results after a doping control carried out on 7 February 2014 showed she'd been using the anabolic steroids Dianabol and Oral Turinabol.


2014 IAAF World Indoor Championships, Records
One championship record was broken at the competition: the American men's 4×400 metres relay team ran a time of 3:02.13 minutes, which was also a world indoor record for the event (a time of 3:01.96 minutes was set by an American team in 2006 but this was not ratified due to a lack of a post-race EPO drug test). Six area (continental) indoor records were broken at the competition, as well as two men's heptathlon championship bests and numerous indoor national records in athletics.


2014 IAAF World Indoor Championships – Men's 1500 metres
The men's 1500 metres at the 2014 IAAF World Indoor Championships took place on 7–8 March 2014.


2014 IAAF World Indoor Championships – Men's 1500 metres, Results, Heats
Qualification: First 2 in each heat (Q) and the next 3 fastest (q) qualified for the final.


2014 IAAF World Indoor Championships – Men's 3000 metres
The men's 3000 metres at the 2014 IAAF World Indoor Championships took place on 7 and 9 March 2014.


2014 IAAF World Indoor Championships – Men's 3000 metres, Results, Heats
Qualification: First 4 in each heat (Q) and the next 4 fastest (q) qualified for the final.


2014 IAAF World Indoor Championships – Men's 4 × 400 metres relay
The men's 4 × 400 metres relay at the 2014 IAAF World Indoor Championships took place on 8 and 9 March.


2014 IAAF World Indoor Championships – Men's 4 × 400 metres relay, Results, Heats
Qualification: First 2 in each heat (Q) and the next 2 fastest (q) qualified for the final.


2014 IAAF World Indoor Championships – Men's 400 metres
The men's 400 metres at the 2014 IAAF World Indoor Championships took place on 7–8 March 2014.


2014 IAAF World Indoor Championships – Men's 400 metres, Results, Heats
Qualification: First 2 in each heat (Q) and the next 2 fastest (q) qualified for the semi-finals.


2014 IAAF World Indoor Championships – Men's 400 metres, Results, Semifinals
Qualification: First 3 in each heat (Q) qualified for the finals.


2014 IAAF World Indoor Championships – Men's 60 metres
The men's 60 metres at the 2014 IAAF World Indoor Championships took place on 7–8 March 2014. Richard Kilty won the gold medal.


2014 IAAF World Indoor Championships – Men's 60 metres, Results, Heats
Qualification: First 3 in each heat (Q) and the next 6 fastest (q) qualified for the semifinal.


2014 IAAF World Indoor Championships – Men's 60 metres, Results, Semifinals
Qualification: First 2 in each heat (Q) and the next 2 fastest (q) qualified for the final.


2014 IAAF World Indoor Championships – Men's 60 metres hurdles
The men's 60 metres hurdles at the 2014 IAAF World Indoor Championships took place on 8–9 March 2014.


2014 IAAF World Indoor Championships – Men's 60 metres hurdles, Results, Heats
Qualification: First 3 in each heat (Q) and the next 4 fastest (q) qualified for the semifinal.


2014 IAAF World Indoor Championships – Men's 60 metres hurdles, Results, Semifinals
Qualification: First 4 in each heat (Q)   qualified for the final.


2014 IAAF World Indoor Championships – Men's 800 metres
The men's 800 metres at the 2014 IAAF World Indoor Championships took place on 7 and 9 March 2014. Poland's Marcin Lewandowski originally won the bronze medal, but a single step on the infield led to his disqualification and the promotion of Great Britain's Andrew Osagie to the third podium position.


2014 IAAF World Indoor Championships – Men's 800 metres, Results, Heats
Qualification: The winner of each heat (Q) and next 3 fastest (q) qualified.


2014 IAAF World Indoor Championships – Men's heptathlon
The men's Heptathlon at the 2014 IAAF World Indoor Championships took place on 7-8 March 2014.


2014 IAAF World Indoor Championships – Men's heptathlon, Qualification standards
Eight athletes were invited by  the  IAAF in the Heptathlon and in the Pentathlon as follows:


2014 IAAF World Indoor Championships – Men's heptathlon, Qualification standards
In  total no more  than  two male and  two  female athletes  from any one Member were invited. Upon  refusals  or  cancellations,  the  invitations  should  be  extended  to  the  next ranked athletes in the same lists respecting the above conditions.


2014 IAAF World Indoor Championships – Men's high jump
The men's High Jump at the 2014 IAAF World Indoor Championships took place on 8–9 March 2014.


2014 IAAF World Indoor Championships – Men's high jump, Results, Qualification
Qualification: 2.31 (Q) or at least 8 best performers (q) qualified for the final.


2014 IAAF World Indoor Championships – Men's long jump
The men's Long Jump at the 2014 IAAF World Indoor Championships took place on 7–8 March 2014.


2014 IAAF World Indoor Championships – Men's long jump, Results, Qualification
Qualification: 8.05 (Q) or at least 8 best performers (q) qualified for the final.


2014 IAAF World Indoor Championships – Men's pole vault
The men's Pole Vault at the 2014 IAAF World Indoor Championships took place on 8 March 2014. The best vaulter of the 2014 indoor season, France's Renaud Lavillenie did not compete at Sopot after suffering a foot injury shortly after he set a new world record of 6.16 metres on 15 February at Donetsk, Ukraine.


2014 IAAF World Indoor Championships – Men's shot put
The men's Shot Put at the 2014 IAAF World Indoor Championships took place on 7 March 2014.


2014 IAAF World Indoor Championships – Men's shot put, Results, Qualification
Qualification: 20.70 (Q) or at least 8 best performers (q) qualified for the final.


2014 IAAF World Indoor Championships – Men's triple jump
The men's Triple Jump at the 2014 IAAF World Indoor Championships took place on 8–9 March 2014.


2014 IAAF World Indoor Championships – Men's triple jump, Results, Qualification
Qualification: 16.90 (Q) or at least 8 best performers (q) qualified for the final.


2014 IAAF World Indoor Championships – Women's 1500 metres
The women's 1500 metres at the 2014 IAAF World Indoor Championships took place on 7–8 March 2014.


2014 IAAF World Indoor Championships – Women's 1500 metres, Results, Heats
Qualification: First 2 in each heat (Q) and the next 3 fastest (q) qualified for the final.


2014 IAAF World Indoor Championships – Women's 3000 metres
The women's 3000 metres at the 2014 IAAF World Indoor Championships took place on 7–9 March 2014.


2014 IAAF World Indoor Championships – Women's 3000 metres, Results, Heats
Qualification: First 4 in each heat (Q) and the next 4 fastest (q) qualified for the final.


2014 IAAF World Indoor Championships – Women's 4 × 400 metres relay
The women's 4 × 400 metres relay at the 2014 IAAF World Indoor Championships took place on 8–9 March 2014. The gold medal was won by the United States, with Jamaica and Great Britain taking the silver and bronze, respectively.


2014 IAAF World Indoor Championships – Women's 4 × 400 metres relay, Doping
The Russian team finished fourth in the final and was later disqualified after Kseniya Ryzhova's doping sample from 7 March 2014 was found positive for trimetazidine.


2014 IAAF World Indoor Championships – Women's 4 × 400 metres relay, Results, Heats
Qualification: First 2 in each heat (Q) and the next 2 fastest (q) qualified for the final.


2014 IAAF World Indoor Championships – Women's 400 metres
The women's 400 metres at the 2014 IAAF World Indoor Championships took place on 7–8 March 2014.


2014 IAAF World Indoor Championships – Women's 400 metres, Results, Heats
Qualification: First 2 (Q) and next 4 fastest (q) qualified for the semi-finals.


2014 IAAF World Indoor Championships – Women's 60 metres
The women's 60 metres at the 2014 IAAF World Indoor Championships took place on 8–9 March 2014.


2014 IAAF World Indoor Championships – Women's 60 metres, Results, Heats
Qualification: First 3 in each heat (Q) and the next 6 fastest (q) qualified for the semifinal.


2014 IAAF World Indoor Championships – Women's 60 metres, Results, Semifinals
Qualification: First 2 in each heat (Q) and the next 2 fastest (q) qualified for the final.


2014 IAAF World Indoor Championships – Women's 60 metres hurdles
The women's 60 metres hurdles at the 2014 IAAF World Indoor Championships took place on 7–8 March 2014.


2014 IAAF World Indoor Championships – Women's 60 metres hurdles, Results, Heats
Qualification: First 3 in each heat (Q) and the next 4 fastest (q) qualified for the semifinal.


2014 IAAF World Indoor Championships – Women's 60 metres hurdles, Results, Semifinals
Qualification: First 4 in each heat (Q) qualified for the final.


2014 IAAF World Indoor Championships – Women's 800 metres
The women's 800 metres at the 2014 IAAF World Indoor Championships took place on 7–9 March 2014.


2014 IAAF World Indoor Championships – Women's 800 metres, Results, Heats
Qualification: The winner of each heat (Q) and next 3 fastest (q) qualified.


2014 IAAF World Indoor Championships – Women's high jump
The women's High Jump at the 2014 IAAF World Indoor Championships took place on 7–8 March 2014.


2014 IAAF World Indoor Championships – Women's high jump, Results, Qualification
Qualification: 1.95 (Q) or at least 8 best performers (q) qualified for the final.


2014 IAAF World Indoor Championships – Women's long jump
The women's Long Jump at the 2014 IAAF World Indoor Championships took place on 8–9 March 2014.


2014 IAAF World Indoor Championships – Women's long jump, Results, Qualification
Qualification: 6.70 (Q) or at least 8 best performers (q) qualified for the final.


2014 IAAF World Indoor Championships – Women's pentathlon
The women's pentathlon at the 2014 IAAF World Indoor Championships took place on 7 March 2014.


2014 IAAF World Indoor Championships – Women's pentathlon, Qualification standards
Eight athletes were invited by  the  IAAF in the Heptathlon and in the Pentathlon as follows:


2014 IAAF World Indoor Championships – Women's pentathlon, Qualification standards
In  total no more  than  two male and  two  female athletes  from any one Member were invited. Upon  refusals  or  cancellations,  the  invitations  should  be  extended  to  the  next ranked athletes in the same lists respecting the above conditions.


2014 IAAF World Indoor Championships – Women's pole vault
The women's Pole Vault at the 2014 IAAF World Indoor Championships took place on 9 March 2014.


2014 IAAF World Indoor Championships – Women's shot put
The women's Shot Put at the 2014 IAAF World Indoor Championships took place on 8 March 2014.


2014 IAAF World Indoor Championships – Women's shot put, Results, Qualification
Qualification: 18.70 (Q) or at least 8 best performers (q) qualified for the final.


2014 IAAF World Indoor Championships – Women's triple jump
The women's Triple Jump at the 2014 IAAF World Indoor Championships took place on 7–8 March 2014.


2014 IAAF World Indoor Championships – Women's triple jump, Results, Qualification
Qualification: 14.30 (Q) or at least 8 best performers (q) qualified for the final.


2014 IAAF World Race Walking Cup
The 2014 IAAF World Race Walking Cup was held in Taicang, China, on 3–4 May 2014. The course was a 2 km loop along Shanghai Road between Banjing Road and Loujiang Road in the centre of the city. It has already been used for the annual IAAF World Race Walking Challenge event. Detailed reports on the event and an appraisal of the results was given for the IAAF.


2014 IAAF World Race Walking Cup, Results, Men's 20 km
IAAF Rule 230.6(a): repeated failure to comply with the definition of race walking


2014 IAAF World Race Walking Cup, Results, Men's 50 km
IAAF Rule 230.6(a): repeated failure to comply with the definition of race walking


2014 IAAF World Race Walking Cup, Results, Men's 10 km (Junior)
IAAF Rule 230.6(a): repeated failure to comply with the definition of race walking