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I like

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Albina
Alisa
Alla
Arina
Faina
Fedora
Filippa
Gena
Ira
Katia
Kira
Klara
Larisa
Lena
Lilia
Petia
Sveta
Zina

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Filipp
Ilia
Ilya
Iona
Kirill
Konstantin
Leonid
Lev
Luka
Melor
Milan
Miron
Taras
Timur
Valentin
Valerian

I like

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Aleksandr
Aleksei
Andrei
Anton
Dimitri/ Dmitri
Ivan
Konstantin
Lev
Nikolai
Petya (not so much of Pyotr, too difficult to pronounce!)
Valentin
Viktor
Vladimir

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Aleksandra
Anja/ Anya
Ekaterina/ Yekaterina
Elena/ Yelena
Elizaveta/ Yelizaveta
Julia/ Yulia/ Yuliya
Lidiya
Maria/ Mariya
Nadezhda
Sofia/ Sofiya/ Sonya
Valentina
Valeria/ Valeriya
Viktoria/ Viktoriya

So, so many.

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Evdokiya / Yevdokiya / Avdotya
Praskovia (see: Praskoviya)
Zvonimira
Xenia / Ksenia / Kseniya / Aksinya
Zlata
Pavlina / Polina
Zoya
Apollinaria (see: Apollinariya)
Zinaida
Kreszentia
Marina (= little Maria)
Agrafena
Oksana
Evpraksiya / Yevpraksiya
Matrona
Zinovia / Zinoviya

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Some of these might be from other Slavic languages, not just Russian.

Fedosia sounds too archaic.

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I'd use:

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Girls names popular in the 2000s:
Anna (Anya)
Yekaterina (Katya)
Alexandra(Sasha)
Viktoria (Vika)
Anastasia (Nastya)
Darya (Dasha)
Maria (Masha)
Alyona
Yelizaveta(Liza)
Polina

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Boys names popular in the 1980s and 1990s:
Alexandr(Sasha)
Maksim
Alexey
Andrey
Mikhail(Misha)
Dmitry (Dima)
Roman (Roma)

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This message was edited 10/6/2014, 5:55 PM

Alyona (al-YO-nuh)
Ecaterina (YEH-caterina)
Katia (KA-te-ya)
Svetlana
Lada
Viktoria

One of my sisters is called Mila, I'm pretty sure it is Russian :) (pronounced mee-luh)

Mikhail
Anatoly
Vitaly 'Vitya'
Viktor
Nikolai 'Koyla'
Dmitri 'Dima'
Andrei
Yasha
Aleksandr 'Sasha'
Evegniy
Kirill
Sergei
Pyotr

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Svetlana 'Sveta'
Oksana
Snezhana
Milena
Zhanna
Yelena
Petra
Katya
Natasha
Elena
Irina
Maria 'Masha'
Kseniya
Ivanna

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I put some of the nicknames that I know assiocated with the names! Most names have a short version, which you can form other nicknames from. Svetlana can became Svetka (although this is a sort of 'mean' nickname if I remember correctly), Sveta, Svetochka, etc. I'm also working on a story with Russian characters so I've trying to learn more about the naming style as well.

This message was edited 10/6/2014, 7:15 PM

I especially like these:

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Alexey / Aleksey
Dima
Dimitri
Feodor
Gavriil
Isidor
Nikolai

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Anastasia
Isidora
Katerina
Natasha
Natasia

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I also recently saw a movie with a female russian character named Nastia. It wasn't a nickname for Anastasia or anything. And the Russian people I know are named Timur, Svetlana, Anna, Viktoria and Anton. The last three are siblings, and V & A are twins.