Using economic penalties to achieve diplomatic goals has a poor track record when the target is powerful and autocratic, and workarounds exist.
https://www.nytimes.com/2017/07/25/business/economy/economic-sanctions-russia-congress.html
https://www.kommersant.ru/doc/3366220
The Congress takes an important, positive step to reinforce Russian sanctions, but are we at risk of overusing the sanctions tool?Senate and House ne…
https://www.cfr.org/blog/have-sanctions-become-swiss-army-knife-us-foreign-policy
The situation may have to get worse before cooler heads start to prevail.
http://nationalinterest.org/feature/are-russia-america-headed-showdown-21645
https://jamestown.org/program/can-moscow-benefit-from-the-unfolding-russia-gate-in-washington/
Russia first proposed India as a member of the Shanghai Cooperation Organization likely in part to complement bilateral economic and security engagement, but mainly to constrain China's growing influence in the organization.
http://www.rand.org/blog/2017/07/china-will-regret-indias-entry-into-the-shanghai-cooperation.html
http://www.rbc.ru/newspaper/2017/07/24/59723c879a794741088d42d8
http://hvylya.net/analytics/politics/kak-rossiya-ispolzuet-protiv-ukrainyi-igil-i-bezviz.html