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The concept of the book – a corrective review of the reasons for the events of the end of 2013 – beginning of 2014 in Ukraine. The main real reason was Volodymyr Putin's strategic plan to change the rules of the game on the EU gas market, at the same time integrating Ukraine into the EU-AEC and Mittal Union structures after its economic weakening.

Putin planned the last revolution to be strangled by the authorities and qualified as an unsuccessful attempt at a coup d'état. He planned that the military conflict between the security forces and radical nationalists would take place not on the Outside, but on the West of Ukraine. Its consequence would be the termination of transit of Russian gas by main gas pipelines laid through the Ukrainian Carpathian Mountains since the Radyanskiy times. In addition, the European Union, being on the verge of an energy catastrophe, could remove the restrictions for the import of Russian gas, prescribed in the Third Energy Package for the active «Pivnichnoe Stream» and favour the construction of the «Pivdennoe Stream».

In the author's opinion, Putin's plan was not realised due to a combination of circumstances, namely: Yanukovych's nervousness, US interference in the situation (through pressure on the Ukrainian oligarchs) and the successful work of the parliament on 21–22 of lut 2014. Yanukovych's self-disappointment from fulfilment of his obligations’Yanukovych's self-resignation as President of Ukraine and the recognition by the world's leading countries of the new government in Kiev made Putin very unlikely to implement his scenario and caused a devastating blow to relations with the European Union and the United States in the energy sector, which is critical for Russia.