Exactly, bugmenot.

Look back at Yukos, Khodorkovsky,
Exxon.

Khodorkovsky, once the richest man in Russia, now doing hard labor.

The negotiation at the end of this gambit was between the EU/E3
and Russia.

Russia wil not allow the Ukraine to join NATO and purchase hardware from Lockheed and General Dynamics with subsidized Russian gas.  Not going to happen.

Eventually the Ukraine will be getting the blame for the EU's lack of gas.  The game has only just begun.  When it's all over the Ukraine will be joining the Shaghai Cooperative.

Exactly. The following statement says it all:
"Ukraine continues to steal gas...Gazprom will once again compensate its European consumers but it cannot continue eternally...," said Sergei Kupriyanov of state-run Gazprom.