There are a lot of nice recommendations in comments. I just want to add that you should not rush to written language. Spoken language is the first to comprehend. Most of native speakers have no idea of grammar. That is very remarkable that most of the Russian language classes (not second language but for natives) do provide literacy improvement but crucial is reading. Those people who do not read books and use language only from social networks, their Russian sucks even when they are native speakers. The main thing is to grow to the stage of reading (even graged readers) and go on. book +audiobook is very effective option as well.
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For Russian beginners: the Cyrillic alphabet looks intimidating but you can read most of it within a week if you focus on letter-sound mappings. After that, the cheapest path to fluency is high-volume reading and listening at your level. LingQ has structured Russian content from beginner to advanced with translation on every word: lingq.com/en/learn-russian-online/
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The mini stories would be very challenging (impossible) for an absolute beginner. You would have to know the alphabet already and how to read Cyrillic. The mini stories are awesome for sure. I wish I had done them easier.
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