Russia has managed to skirt many of the West's sanctions, but they still come at a cost to Putin: economist

• Sanctions against Russia work as they limit access to funding, technology, and oil revenues, an economist told The Conversation.
• Without Western sanctions, Ukraine would be having a harder time in the war with Russia.
• While Russia has managed to circumvent some sanctions, they come at a price.

Russia has managed to circumvent many of the sanctions that have been leveled against it since it invaded Ukraine — but this doesn't mean they haven't been effective, a prominent Russian economist told The Conversation in a report published on Wednesday.