Writing in Novaya Gazeta, Yulia Latynina argues that the Russian leadership has been too heavy handed in its use as natural gas as a political lever, and that the past aggression has come back to hit them like a boomerang.  Translation in full provided over on La Russophobe:

In short, no one used to believe the Kremlin. No one believed there could be a war with Georgia, that gas was a weapon, that Russia could cut off the Ukraine’s gas and say that the Ukrainians had themselves turned off their supplies. But people believe the Kremlin now.