Hi! Russian is my first language so I can't help with a website or book, as I've never needed to learn the words) As for vocabulary, I think pen pal is good idea. You could write to me or somebody in English-Russian, like: Hello (Привет) How are you doing? (Как дела?) etc. You could choose any topic and you'd get the answear in the same Russian-English way. So you'd learn new words in context. This always works best for me. You could also ask your pen pal to point out the mistakes , if there are any in your message

you can build up your Russian vocabulary only by reading THICK Russian books.....so pen pal way is wrong way....

Hello =) I think that it would be better to understand for yourself, what for you going to learn this or other language. because there many ways and programms for learning. For exampel : bussines, comunication and etc.

yup, that's a good bit of advice! so, guess u should try it!!!