The gas price hike is unacceptable blackmail of the Ukraine. It is intended to damage another nation and represents an act of war, pure and simple!
http://www.bloomberg.com/news/2014-05-24/russia-invasion-risk-is-unchanged-ukrainian-envoy-says.html
The importance of naught:
It had the biggest head you ever saw. A great enormous thing, - like nothing. A huge big -- well, like a -- I don't know -- like an enormous big nothing. A.A. Milne, "Winnie The Pooh"