One of two literary works that, I am reliably told, provide remarkable insight into modern Russian life and cultural literacy. New Russian Jokes . Chukcha jokes . Ethnic jokes aimed at the indigenous inhabitants of far eastern Siberia, and others. The above list will be updated from time to time.
Suggestions are welcome.
Longer texts require third-party software, and AportisDoc, published by Aportis Technologies has become an extremely popular package used to read the texts of books and stories, and to view reference documents on the PalmPilot screen, as has TealDoc, published by TealPoint Software . I own copies of both apps. My work involves heavy duty Russian language translation and interpretation, so naturally, I've kept on the lookout for a way to read and write in Russian on my Pilot. International characters are replaced by Cyrillic characters. CyrHack supports both the Windows 1251 and KOI-8R character mappings.