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Throbert,
Your college teachers of Russian taught you well. Indeed, DEVOICING (or: "devocalization") of voiced Russian consonants /б/, /в/, /г/, д/, /ж/, /з/ in the end of Russian words is a norm....

As for the the small villages and cities in Ukraine, I come from Ukraine, and never heard that. :) Ukrainians will not reduce "свого", "мого", "червоного". Perhaps, your Ukrainian friend was thinking...

Sorry, "я" is reduced to /и/ when unstressed.

To be more specific, /сиводни/, because letter "и", when unstressed (unaccentuated), is reduced to a sound resembling /и/.

The word "сегодня" is pronounced /сиводня/, because it is a compound, coming from "сего" and "дня" (of this day).

And some more examples, this time with adjectives in Genitive and Accusative:

У самого /самава/ синего /синива/ моря.

Я не люблю сладкого /слаткава/.

Дайте мне зеленого /зиленава/ чаю.

some more examples, this time with numerals in the Genitive Case:

Сейчас половина первого /первава/.

Я буду в Москве второго /фтарова/ марта.

Я родилась двадцать седьмого /сидьмова/ апреля.

Yes, there is a rule about the Russian pronouns, ordinal numerals and adjectives in the Genitive Case ( and sometimes in Accusative, if they refer to living things), stating that the inflexions...