It seems that Russian "humanitarian" assistance can be as capricious as hurricane aid under a corrupt Republican governor or postwar reconstruction under an incompetent Republican president:
[W]ithin a few months of Russia’s recognition [of South Ossetia] ... people began to wonder when the billions of rubles of aid pledged by Russia would reach them. The answer seems to have been that much of it was stolen....
Russia’s federal audit chamber found that six months after the conflict, only $1.4 million had been spent on reconstruction out of a disbursement of $55 million in priority aid. By last year, the chamber estimated that $33 million had been lost or misused.
Next up, Russia's Crimea, which a Carnegie Moscow Center analyst says will be a daunting task--"reviving its economy, distributing money and influence among its ethnic groups, and trying to control the corruption that accompanies all big Russian projects"--while economists predict "a serious drag on Russia’s budget."
Please proceed, Vladimir.