Let's see, the Ukraine is objecting to paying the price increase from $50 to $160 per 1,000 cubic meters for gas. The Russians are going to be collecting $255 from the other European countries in 2006. It appears to me Russia is being more than fair to the Ukraine.
I fully expect a 200% increase in gas price would elict some protest, by any reasonable measure of sanity. What you fail to mention, is, was there an similar increase in the EURO rate?