It's not easy to know when I'm reading "baby talk" or hardcore stories. The Russian media sources I use are Комсомо́льская пра́вда, Российская газета, Аргументы и факты, and Красная звезда.
And yeah, I wanna know more but I'm still learning Russian grammar and sentence structure. I learn a lot of Russian here and from Alex at another site (he was born in Moscow and lived there for 25 years). I have so many other subjects I have to study till summer but I still find some free time every day to study some Russian too. I'll have a lot more time this summer.
I do watch some Russian TV, Russian movies, and other Russian videos. I watch them to see how many words I recognize and sometimes I hear phrases I understand.
But when I read news or watch it on TV, I try to ignore everything but the facts because I only wanna know what's happening.
I don't have any reason to hate Ukrainians or Russians and I hope that the Ukrainian government will find a way to make all the Ukrainian people happy. I know that won't be easy with an Austerity program but I believe it can be done.
Maybe a crisis like that will happen someday in the US. Until that happens, I don't believe anyone here will ever really understand it or how it feels to be caught up in it. All I can really understand is the facts (the ones that are proven).