> As a Russian, I'd love them to have a way more severe impact, as I would happily endure great hardships if this would weaken Putin's fascist regime.

As a Russian, I remember being trolled by the following joke, very popular among pseudo-liberals and other russophobic lot:

"When lords will demand that every Russian must have a boot their asses by saturday, they will form a line in Friday to get this over with faster."

I can't stop laughing over how ironic this whole thing turned out.