The truth is that it's simply a complex issue about a country with a deep ideological divide which is being pulled on by the two super-powers it's wedged between.

There's a lot of power-play going on here, especially with Putin's desire to have Sochi (the winter games) look good, which is evidenced by things such as the massive discount on natural gas offered by Russia in exchange for not signing the treaty with the EU (which sparked the protests originally.)

That's why Russian media focuses mostly on the fact that the majority of people on the street are extremists (i.e. people who love to fight,) conveniently ignoring the fact that a large amount are also just normal citizens truly representing the movement and a much, much larger amount of people are expressing their support on social media.

More 'propagandised' than our media? Every single news item we get concerning Russia and Ukraine is filtered through the 'Putin is an evil dictator lens', we get nothing even remotely close to the truth... Source: friends from Russia and Ukraine.

  Likewise (adverb): 
    1. in the same way; also   
    2. in a like manner; similarly

What with the homophobia and corruption scandals I doubt that's even possible anymore.

True. But that also means to say certain opinions are flawed because of bias is kind of pointless, isn't it?

what some protester writes on a blog (because that wouldn't be biased at all...)

At least it's first-hand bias. Those people put their lives on the line, literally, so while I agree one shouldn't just take a handful opinions and believe them, I think you can't just easily dismiss them for being protesters, either. It takes a lot of material to come even to a tentative conclusion, but it's possible. Then you'll still be biased but I guess that's the price of being human.