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In fact I saw at least one artikel on Hungarian news site about the same topic.

Thinking about the reasons why Hungary was picked. From security viewpoint getting the presidents of Russia and US into the same place is huge responsibility.
So one of the reasons we can sum up as: our govt kept a civil tone towards Russia, not working overtime on chopping all the ropes like a madman. This is described by Our Party and Government as "being in the peacecamp", and by Western leftlib media and politicians as "Putin's best friend in the EU", or even Russian Trojan horse.
But, they surely looked for a country that can be trusted. And there is no such thing as "trust" in Realpolitik. Or any kind of foreign politics really, even the most gullible of liberals would not believe in that.
Right now Hungary is run by one of the most loyal client regime of the Trump administration.
But this is only one thing. Russia also needs a reason to consider our country "trustable". And yes, Hungary probably was a reliable trade partner, the type of loyalty and ties the Western media tries to project are nonexistent. What I think has a role in this is Israel.
Not just the Orbán government, but all the politicians minus Mi Hazánk perhaps, and prior Jobbik, and prior MIÉP are pro-Zionist to the max, and unknown number but a sure number of Israeli-Hungarian double citizens sit in the legislation and in the governmental bureaucracy, no doubt in various security services and law enforcement too. Israel has a great pull on Hungary and she influences our foreign relations. There are other details such as Israelite religious groups visiting Hungary, or that various Israeli sport teams (eg. football clubs) play their various matches at us. Both example needs some level of Israeli security involvement, they have a way in. So I think Israel has a reason to believe Hungary as a trustable and secure place.
Relations between Russia and Israel are rarely discussed and hard to measure the real depth, but for this post I think we can say they are quite pragmatic. The issues they have all largely has to do with great power politics in the Middle East, the clash of interests between US and SU - later Russia. Even that Iran thing is the result of this. Should not forget Israel is a US client. Some say Israel is 51st state of the US, now that couple millions of Jews emigrated from Russia, we could consider it a Russian oblast too.
Israel maintained relations with Russia, they did not join in any sanctions either. Compared to this Hungary is a real enemy of Russia we are rolling with all the EU sanctions. And recently Netanyahu seems to mediate between Trump and Putin. They had casual chats this year.