What are you even talking about? It is all about securing natural gas delivery to Europe.
This is also the reason why Russia can. Europe is depleted on the energy, especially after shutting down more nuclear plants. It will only be worse in following years -- only thing that somewhat dampened the effect so far was a relatively warm winter, but even given that and US shipments there is still gas understock.
Nobody in Europe would want to really piss Russia off when their own political stability during winter months would be very much dependent on Russia's natural gas for years to come.