Russia would most likely love to control the pipelines through Ukraine, avoiding gas transit fees and other problems they've had a conflict about for about 30 years.
Perhaps even more importantly, they dont want Ukraine to westernize (or as it is also known; selling all your state-owned...
I dont like it. People are blindly walking into some emotional, bloodthirsty nationalism and its not fun to see. Learning about our colonial history, our neo-colonial history, our political systems... all forgotten over just a few days. All that remains is different versions of "we westeners are...