I'm sure others here have favorite Russian learning sites (please add), but here are a few university-based sites I stumbled across recently that look promising: Short stories, poetry, cartoons, etc for learners (with audio and/or video) from the Russian Department at Sewanee University: http://www.sewanee.edu/russian/html/html_languagetools/html_stories/stories.html and from UCLA Beginner's Russian site (mostly keyed to a textbook, but videos/etc. could be used stand-alone. http://www.russian.ucla.edu/beginnersrussian/student/home.htm and from Cambridge, a list of internet resources in Russianhttp://www.mml.cam.ac.uk/slavonic/resources/online_resources.html:
Not exactly what you asked for, but these are nice intermediate podcasts: UCLA Business Russian Podcasts