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Sure thing, anon! Now I’m not super focused on Russian atm but I’ve managed to scrounge up something for you :)

Free Online Russian-Learning Websites:

http://www.study-languages-online.com/

http://masterrussian.com/

http://www.russianforeveryone.com/

http://www.yesrussian.com/

http://www.russianlessons.net/

https://www.duolingo.com/course/ru/en/Learn-Russian-Online (I’m sure you’re familiar with this one)

Cyrillic Alphabet:

http://masterrussian.com/russian_alphabet.shtml

http://www.russianforeveryone.com/RufeA/Lessons/Introduction/Alphabet/Alphabet.htm

http://www.omniglot.com/writing/russian.htm (I absolutely love Omniglot and would recommend it to anyone with a general interest in languages)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GIKX9RYOX5w (For children, but good for learners as well)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RhrSpf8kaqQ

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=64vWY8YIijY

Russian Keyboard:

http://www.apronus.com/internet/ruskey.htm (Online Cyrillic keyboard)

http://winrus.com/kbd_e.htm (A downloadable phonetic keyboard instead of the Microsoft keyboard that is already formatted in Microsoft computers, the phonetic keyboard is easier to use because Cyrillic letters are placed with the closest roman letter equivalent on an English QWERTY keyboard)

Online Dictionaries:

http://www.rustran.com/

http://www.freedict.com/onldict/rus.html

http://www.lexilogos.com/english/russian_dictionary.htm

http://dictionary.reverso.net/english-russian/ (Reverso is pretty good in my experience)

Immersion:

http://www.bbc.com/russian

http://ria.ru/radio/ 

http://all-radio.ru/

http://www.rususa.com/fun/radio/

http://ru-news.ru/

http://rusnovosti.ru/ (News)

http://www.pravda.ru/ (News)

http://rutube.ru/ (Russian youtube)

https://www.goodreads.com/list/show/33661.Best_Russian_Children_Books (For some beginner’s reading)

https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLPYC—L3hwnJHZZGpCaPo2DxiSFwjkYd (The children’s show ‘Masha and the Bear’ in Russian)

Movies in Russian (Click on title to see the wiki page):

Leviathan (2014)

Solaris (1972) 

Stalker (1979)

The Return (2003)

Hard to be a God (2013)

The Mirror (1975)

Russian Ark (2002)

Elena (2011)

Battle for Sevastopol (2015)

Battleship Potemkim (1925) 

Ivan’s Childhood (1962)

How I Ended This Summer (2010)

12 (2007)

Burnt by the Sun (1994)

The Thief (1997)

Faust (2011) 

Mongol (2007)

The Fool (2014) 

A Driver for Vera (2004)

Russian Music:

Aria (Heavy metal)

DDT (Rock)

Kino (Post-punk)

Nyusha (Pop, R&b)

Yulia Savicheva (Pop rock)

t.A.T.u (Pop, electronic)

Nautilus Pompilius (Alternative, post-punk)

Russian Novels:

Crime and Punishment (Fyodor Dostoyevsky)

The Master and Margarita (Mikhail Bulgakov) (BEST)

Anna Karenina (Leo Tolstoy)

War and Peace (Leo Tolstoy)

Dead Souls (Nikolay Gogol)

A Hero of Our Time (Mikhail Lermontov)

The Brothers Karamazov (Fyodor Dostoevsky)

Apps - Android specific (Sorry, I don’t have Apple ios so I cannot offer anything there):

Duolingo 

Memrise

Mango Languages (Offers a free trial)

Babbel

Learn & Speak Russian - Mondly

Radio Russia

Learn Russian by Babel Yak

Learn Russian 6,000 Words

Verses of Russian poets

Multitran Russian Dictionary

Tumblr Blogs:

@learn-russian-language

@russiangrammar

@rashn

@gemrussian

@lovsiberianhusky

First of all, Leonid Gaidai. Check this guy out, he is INDREDIBLE.

Operation Y and Other Shurik’s Adventures (1965)

Kidnapping, Caucasian Style (1967)

The Diamond Arm (1968)

The Twelve Chairs (1971)

Ivan Vasilievich: Back to the Future (1973)

It Can’t Be! (1975)

Also:

The Hussar Ballad (1962)

Peculiarities of the National Hunt (1995)

Peculiarities of the National Fishing (1998)

Peculiarities of the National Winter Hunt (2000) - there’s also 4th movie in this series, but it’s very bad. these three are classics.

Books!

Mikhail Bulgakov, although I’m not a big fan of him (we have some strange cult of him which I do not understand at all):

Heart of the Dog

A Country Doctor’s Notebook

Zoyka’s apartment: A tragic farce in three acts (a play, I LOVE IT SO)

PUSHKIN WHY THERE’S NO PUSHKIN

Yevgeny Onegin 

The Tales of the Late Ivan Petrovich Belkin

The Captain’s Daughter

HIS POETRY

FAIRYTALES

Other cool ones:

Brodskiy!! you probably know him anyway

Gaito Gazdanov - very underrated, but so much better than Bunin IMO

Ilf and Petrov - early soviet prose, HILARIOUS

Chekhov is famous, read his short stories.

Teffi - she was awesome and funny

Maxim Gorky

Gogol - so-called Peterburg Tales (Nevsky Prospect, The Portrait, The Overcoat, The Nose, Diary of a Madman)

Vladimir Mayakovsky (poetry) - there are records of his voice!!

Vladimir Vysotsky - POET & SINGER. He was famous for his songs, was a great actor, there’s a lot of records (he has a remarcable voice, so check him out)

Music!

Agata Kristi (post-punk)

Undervud (rock)

Splean (Сплин) - indie rock

Aquarium

Golden Ring (Russian: Золотое кольцо) - folk music, very cool IMO