In the upper left corner of your screen - below the italki banner, next to the Home-button - should be a "Language Partners" button. Click it, and you'll get the search page. If you search for people able to speak Japanese and interested in learning Russian, you should get about 200 hits. While many of these may in fact be learning both Japanese and Russian, having added Japanese to their 'speaking-list' to show that they do know some of it, there should be plenty there for you to send friend requests to. Alternatively, search for and add other people who're trying to learn Japanese. This isn't ideal, really, but for the very basics it might actually be helpful - at the very least, they'll be able to tell you how they learned Kanji (if they have learned them). Then there's the option to use the Marketplace option to hire a teacher, though as the name suggest this will cost money. Looking at the bright side, the first 30 minutes are often quite cheap, and while I haven't tried it I imagine you'll be able to learn much during that time. Oh, or you could do like me: Start by taking Japanese classes in the real world, just to get you started, then look up every new Kanji you come across. This is probably the slowest method available (I'm at 1 year and counting, having learned Hiragana, forgotten Katakana, and knowing maybe 10-20 Kanji at sight), but having used much the same method to learn English I can still recommend it - after all, that is how children learn their native language. Of course, in order to come across any significant amount of Japanese, you'll probably have to return to method #1 and add a bunch of Japanese-speakers to your friendlist.