One thing you can do, if you happen to play WoW, is to go and download the Russian client for that. Then you can edit a text file in the WoW directory and set it to connect to the US servers. Since you already know the game it'll be easy to still know what you're doing. Just gotta learn to read Russian, which honestly…
The easiest way for learning a language is if you also like the culture that comes with it. It's easy if you like their music and you can play it all day long and listen to lyrics and radio shows. It helps if you're interested in what's going on in that country because you'll want to watch / read the news in their…
if you can familiarize yourself with cyrillics, it's going to be somewhat easy to read Russian; however, the pronunciation is different from English (closer to German probably), and there's a lot of underlying grammar crap you'll have to learn (we have a fair share of that); unless you know someone irl who has a decent…