The resounding parliamentary defeat suffered by the Ukrainian opposition will disappoint Yulia Tymoshenko's Batkivshchyna (Fatherland) party.
It will also irk the European Union, especially big-hitter Germany, which is used to getting its own way in redrawing the continent's post-1991 map.
It has been practically one-way traffic since then, with Berlin leading the charge to break up the former Socialist Federal Republic of Yugoslavia.