@Specter.
Thanks for the heads up on the Latin and Greek thing but I already memorized the Cyrillic alphabet. I know it as well as I know the English alphabet now, I write stuff in Russian script (л м и ш get scary sometimes, lol), and I memorized all the keys so I can type Russian on an English keyboard (the green letters on my diagram).
One thing you may see is that the script letters for "И", "Й", and "Л" are sometimes used in plain text so "И" and "Й" look like "U" and "Л" looks like an upside-down "V".
Btw, two good online Russian courses are the MasterRussian course and the LearnRussian.RT.com course. The RT course stresses listening to Russian conversations and translating what you hear. I started that one a few days ago and I'm already at Lesson 3 Task 11. It really owns to hear Russians speaking and know what they're saying!