learn_russian | capitalization and russian news stories (Reply)

This is perhaps a silly question, but one I've always wondered about.

Different languages have different rules on capitalization, and nobody ever really bothered to teach them to us in my Russian classes. I know names and cities should be capitalized, as well as the beginning of each sentence, but what about months (in a date for example)? Any other strange and unusual capitalization rules?

Also does anyone have any suggestions for websites where I can find Russian news stories (i.e. in the original russian)? I have to read and summarize them for my class, so it would be helpful if they were not incredibly long and used vocabulary at a high-intermediate level, although I can work my way through anything. I already use BBCRussia, Gazeta.ru, and ITAR-TASS.

thank you!