UKRAINE - Spinning Out of Control

My answer, (duh) YES.  The situation is an example of Putin buying loyalty.

"Is Ukraine on the verge of spinning out of control?" PBS Newshour 2/18/2014

Excerpt

The deadly violence and mayhem gripping Kiev signals an escalation in the more than two months of protests against the pro-Russia Ukrainian government.  Steven Pifer of the Brookings Institution and Adrian Karatnycky of the Atlantic Council join Gwen Ifill to discuss the root causes of the unrest, the leverage of the West and the outside forces pushing Ukraine into battle.