What I've read seems to say that general public really would like to be part of the EU. The president was elected under shady circumstances in 2010, basically bought and paid for by Putin and Russia. As pressure has mounted to join the EU, the "elected" leadership has completely turned on it's people. They've made protesting illegal, speaking out against a public official is jailable, and now they are pretty much having a war with their own people. Scary stuff.