Global Voices Online

Hungarian Spectrum reports that Victor Orbán, leader of the opposition party Fidesz, now has a Facebook page - and nearly 8,000 fans: “By the way, I'll bet that as soon as Orbán wins the elections this whole flirtation with the Internet will come to an abrupt end.”

Faisal K. at Deadpan Thoughts shares from his personal experience how to be prepared for a hacking attack on all your email/social network accounts.

Media Network blog of Radio Netherlands Worldwide writes about the Georgian-owned, Russian-language First Caucasian TV channel, whose satellite broadcasts have recently been interrupted - here and here. And here's Eternal Remont's take on the situation.

The Sayano-Shushenskaya hydroelectric power plant [EN] in Siberia might not survive the spring, blogger Dmitri Verkhoturov writes [RUS]. He provides pictures of an ice crust spread over the dam barrier. In August 2009, one of the turbines at the plant, the sixth-largest in the world, broke apart [EN], which led to the death of 75 people.

Svetlana Gladkova of Profy writes that “representatives of one of the local retailers that is now negotiating iPad sales in Russia expect to be able to sell iPad at the price that will be twice as high as it is in the US”: “Now can anyone explain me why Apple cares so much about its pricing goals in the US and does not care about them internationally?”

“When iHeard Apple called the device iPad, iImmediately thought of tampons and iAm a man. iThink Apple has unwittingly provided fodder for stand up comedians and may have to change the name to something like iTouch-Big, iMoses or iAintKnow”: Trinidad and Tobago's This Beach Called Life has a lot to say about the new Apple offering, while KnowTnT.com blogs about the trademark implications of its name.

John writes about Mobile Web East Africa Conference: Mobile Web East Africa is a very cool conference taking place in Nairobi of Feb. 3-4. The event focuses on “harnessing the potential of the internet and applications on mobile devices,”

Svetlana Gladkova of Profy writes about a Russian draft law aiming to limit access to explicit online content during daytime: “It is obvious that internet here is taken as some wider analogue of television.”

Svetlana Gladkova of Profy writes about Mail.ru's relationship with Google and Yandex.ru.