in addition to radio...

[madrumos.livejournal.com]

as a supplement to wolk_off's thread about listening to russian radio on the net, i'd like to recommend watching russian TV online! i try to do it often, and i like it a lot, you can get the news (perhaps not unbiased, but...), there's practice with russian, and there's visual input to help you understand things. if you have high-speed internet i highly recommend it.

the most reliable and useful site i've found for this is from www.vesti.ru:
http://www.vesti.ru/fotovideo.html?page=1

click on any of the видео links to watch the corresponding segment from the day's russian news program. it's updated at least once or twice a day, it seems to me.

it's been interesting keeping track of their coverage of the pension/social-welfare 'uprising' of recent weeks.