What is an indicator of "stability" (?!) ? Western media reports ? Russian middle class complaining about lack of Swiss cheese ? Russia will suffer for sure for lack of foreign currency and products, but so it will have to get used to consume it's own replacements, and make extra efforts to decrease prices of domestic products by increasing production volume.
What they did was expected. Scale down civilian expenses and increase military expenses. It will be a blow for middle class, but after all, that's what middle class is - sheep for slaughter. No one will shed much tears.
edit: I don't believe Russia will ever revolutionize anything. Iran survived embargo, so will Russia, cure is the same. With these military campaigns in foreign lands, they are buying themselves precious years. Putin even admitted that telling last year that after Ukraine "Russian homeland is next" (meaning last battleground to take down Russia). Buy moving battleground far away, they are buying themselves time and hoping something will happen to the west which will cripple it's power; economic crash, growth of China, some other type of crisis, dissolution of EU, whatever...
What they did was expected. Scale down civilian expenses and increase military expenses. It will be a blow for middle class, but after all, that's what middle class is - sheep for slaughter. No one will shed much tears.
edit: I don't believe Russia will ever revolutionize anything. Iran survived embargo, so will Russia, cure is the same. With these military campaigns in foreign lands, they are buying themselves precious years. Putin even admitted that telling last year that after Ukraine "Russian homeland is next" (meaning last battleground to take down Russia). Buy moving battleground far away, they are buying themselves time and hoping something will happen to the west which will cripple it's power; economic crash, growth of China, some other type of crisis, dissolution of EU, whatever...