Thank you for the deluge of links, folks -- my bookmarks runneth over now. Polit.ru looks great, as do the Levada and RIAN analysis. I subscribe to JRL and Russia Profile and I was aware of Gazeta and Pravda (which I tend to pretty much avoid -- their English translations used to be horrible and the articles on UFOs, Bigfoot, etc. didn't make me really take them seriously).

With all this being said -- and I do appreciate all the info you guys have provided -- I was really hoping you could recommend a specific article/book or two. It doesn't necessarily need to be online (although that's definitely good) either. Thanks for all your imput so far and anything else you've got to say on this would be great.