No one in Russia is going to change policies because of Western sanctions. If there is a price to be paid for upholding Russia’s national interests, they’re seen as a necessary evil.
By the time the sanctions damage the Russia economy, the West will be hurt as well. Russia is not going to stop being involved in Ukraine because its an important country bordering Russia. It wants to see a neutral and friendly government there. Short of that it fully intends to make life difficult for Kiev.
And there is not much the West can do to counter it.
It is not if I’m impartial but I find these sanctions a hypocrisy for a reason that the West is claiming they want Russia to reform for more freedom but every step indicates it is a lie.
Even before Ukraine there were Western-supported NGOs in Russia who declared they are for freedom, human rights and against corruption but if you would see into them they were all a set of communists and nazis plotting to overthrow government which actually did more than them for reforms.
Countering aggressive tactics of these groups already contributed to a certain losses in freedoms in Russia which I can’t support, and now with these sanctions and growing support for the government it has free hands to go further or team with anti-western forces who aren’t friends of freedom.
I might be wrong of course but it certainly seems that the West is not a friend of freedom in Russia but doing best to revert it to old practices.