No matter how much money the West provides, Russia cannot recover from its problems because those problems are deeply rooted structural and cultural defects in the Russian system that make it impossible for it to, if you will, metabolize money effectively. Put differently, if it doesn't turn into capital, it doesn't become productive. Money sent to Russia remains money to be spent on imported luxuries, used to bribe opposition politicians, or stolen. It does not create economic growth. Thus, the maneuvering gets the West's attention followed by ineffective assistance, inertia, and the return to the crisis stage.
China is a similar case, albeit far from as hopeless economically.
Nevertheless, after a series of entirely unsatisfactory bilateral meetings at several levels, tremendous criticism from the United States on human rights, the investigation of Chinese financial aid to Bill Clinton, the espionage scandal and a general decline in relations, the Chinese saw the bombing of their embassy as a marvelous opportunity to redefine their relations with the United States. Taking a page from Moscow's book, they recreated the world prior to the rise of Deng Xiaping, complete with howling mobs and resolutions condemning American hegemonism. The bombing of the embassy, had it happened in 1991 in Baghdad, would have been managed with a harsh protest and an apology. In 1999, it was turned into opera by a China hoping to make its point. That got the U.S.'s attention but, as with Russia, it was not clear what the Chinese wanted that the U.S. and the West could give them.