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Some of Russia’s neighbors feel Moscow never really has gotten over losing control of them when the Soviet Union fell apart in 1991

Now, it seems Russia is claiming them back — if only in the biographies of athletes at the London Olympics.

Ukraine and Georgia have protested that descriptions of some Russian
athletes’ birthplaces on the official London 2012 website make the
countries seem like part of Russia.

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