Hard to judge without ground-truth. Many over there seem to resent what they see as a US-installed gov't - and ripped off as citizens as a result, especially when they identify ethnically as Russian. (The "don't muck around in my hemisphere" thing isn't restricted to the US.) Doesn't seem the EU has the gumption to push-back against much of anything the current administration does & certainly they have their own fish to fry.
Interesting over the transom note from a Russian, on a web-blog
here, that discusses one Russian's viewpoint
vis a vis Putin, Crimean situation, and the Ukraine. More here than meets the eye.
