Great Russian websites!

[scifigal.livejournal.com]

I have profiles on these sites, and I've found that they've really helped my passive vocabulary. They use consistent wording, and they're similar enough to English sites that you can make good guesses.

1. www.vkontakte.ru It's basically Facebook in Russian.
2. www.rambler.ru It has a dating section (www.love.rambler.ru), similar to any site like Okcupid (turn ons, who you want to meet, etc). I like it because it also has a (crappy) chat program, so people are available to chat with me. I use it, not for dating, but for meeting people online.

If you have more, you should add them in the comments!

Comments

[cassandraclue.livejournal.com]

It's Vkontakte.ru.

Fixed!

[scifigal.livejournal.com]

Thank you! My brain gets jumbled when going back and forth from English to Russian. Additionally, I find I can't type Russian words in English, because my brain reaches for the Russian letters. GRRR. So yeah, in my head it was in Russian and got transliterated. DOPE!

Re: Fixed!

[scifigal.livejournal.com]

and it's also possible that "transliterated" isn't a word. Brain full, I have The Dumb.

[abriter.livejournal.com]

i know there's a Russian chat section on sharedtalk.com and mostly Russians chat there, so maybe it could help you.

[rasovsky.livejournal.com]

odnoklassniki.ru = classmates.com

[bokh.livejournal.com]

Russian bash.org (http://bash.org.ru)
Russian jokes/stories collection (http://www.anekdot.ru) - now losing popularity to bash.org.ru
kind of Russian urbandictionary (http://www.slovoborg.ru)
Russian Digg (http://news2.ru/)

And just in case somebody still doesn't know, Russian search engines (Sometimes do a better job than Google for Russian sites):
Yandex (http://www.yandex.ru/)
Rambler (http://www.rambler.ru/)

[sha-lun.livejournal.com]

Biggest russian IT forum - forum.ru-board.com

[bokh.livejournal.com]

ixbt (http://forum.ixbt.com/) isn't too shabby either ;)

[racoonbear.livejournal.com]

dirty.ru - most interesting news and \ or art, pics, everything (It is alike reddit)
leprosorium.ru (it's not open, it requires invite) - it initially was site for banned on "dirty.ru"