A little offtopic but it seems like Russia has an insatiable, centuries old desire to be part of the West: Americans caused major damage to the Soviets in Afghanistan, then Balkanized the Balkans, then bombed Serbia, then continued to expand NATO boundaries to Russia, then caused the coup in Ukraine and yet Russians were still quite happy to be close to joining the West as we saw as recently as the Sochi Olympics. Heck, Americans were in Russian backyard for two decades in Afghanistan as basically sitting ducks and Russians let them be and even helped via allies in logistics when Pakistan didn't cooperate with the Americans.
So who's to say some bone thrown their way, especially after Putin is dead, Russians won't go back groveling to the West for 'acceptance'?? But nothing wrong with that: Russia, west of the Urals, should be part of the EU where it belongs.