That's ... an interesting perspective. Russia is 2nd largest oil exporter after the U.S., a wheat exporter and I've never heard about any problems with water ou

That's ... an interesting perspective. Russia is 2nd largest oil exporter after the U.S., a wheat exporter and I've never heard about any problems with water outside of Crimea too. Obviously Russian economy is hit hard now, but not to the point of humanitarian catastrophe I think. Having said that I don't think they have a plan really. They just do what they can and see how it goes. I believe there are going to be two trends: one of sanctions slowly gaining in effect, and another one of Russia adapting to sanctions. We'll see which one is stronger. Also as I understand many in Russian government believe that current hard sanctions are due to Ukraine's pressure and intel, and once it's gone (which they hope to be solved with military) sanctions will become weaker and/or easier to circumvent.