Russia's War Against Ukraine
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Anna Nemtsova: Can Russia survive after Ukraine?
Pro-Russian separatists carry the coffin of a comrade at their military base ahead of a funeral in the eastern Ukrainian city of Donetsk on Feb. 16, 2015.
On the day pro-Russian forces' artillery fire encircled over 5,000 Ukrainian soldiers in the town of Debaltseve in Eastern Ukraine, a debate was being carried out over the war's causes and consequences far from the fighting in the Altai Mountains on Russia's Eastern edge.