You are absolutely clueless as to what is going on. The currency and the state of the Russian economy has little to do with the sanctions but everything to do with the state of the global economy including oil prices. The Russian economy has been struggling before the Crimea incident happened. This is also why they have started shifting away from oil to things like agriculture and has been doing that for a few years now and wants to increase other exports, keeping the currency low is helping this cause. As someone who actually studied economics the things you say don't make any sense. However I don't blame you because what you are saying is what most of the Western Political media is pushing, serious Western financial Papers usually don't write any of this because they would lose a lot of credibility. As far as Crimea is concerned it is an important geopolitical position and giving it up despite the fact that they actually have somewhat of an argument that it belongs to them would be reckless. By the way Russia did not deploy troops in Crimea they had 20k troops there already just like the US has over 40k troops in Germany. It is not uncommon for military allies to have a military base in the allied country especially when that part of the country is very important geopolitically. And as far as the protest is concerned it was financed by governments, projects like the Open Society Project from George Soros and was not organic also there weren't millions of people protesting. In addition to that the protestors themselves turned the protests violant, which is a know tactic usually done by professional aggitators. By the way calling people names for confronting you with facts is not a counter argument, that's called ad hominem argument. I looked at your profile and you are probaly under 18 years old, get your news from reddit and probably live in the Ukraine despite claiming to be Russian. For someone who claims to be indoctrinated by Russian propaganda all day you seem to be awfully indoctrinated by Ukrainian and cheap Western political propaganda. I am not going to comment on life because I don't live there but I did study economy and the Ukraine crisis so I certainly can comment on those things the statements you have made are completely wrong.