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Russian Civilization in the 19th Century
CNN's John Defterios asks why Putin didn't take the whole Donbass or even a whole of the Ukraine in 2014. "He seems to just want to put thorns in people's minds temporarily, temporarily," he says. The Russian leader is also half Jewish and half Ukrainian; his family doesn't speak that language anymore. But they do have relatives who were living in Ukraine who recently had to evacuate.