Despite the Americans and their cronies banning almost one-third of the Russian athletes, the Federation still finished 4th in the overall medal table. And they didn't used a single foreign-born athlete, unlike the Great Fruitain (less than 10% of the athletes were ethnic Brits).
You're not right.
Russia had many athletes who didn't born in Russia. Mostly of them from ex Soviet countries like Belarus, Ukraine, Georgia, Lithuania and others. Russia gave them citizenship and big money.
Could you provide a list, please?
Saying that an athlete from Belarus or Ukraine or Lithuania is foreign to Russia is like saying that an athlete from Texas is foreign to USA. Most of them would have either had a dual citizenship anyway of have ended up one the wrong side of the border when the 1991 coup d'etat happened and USSR fell apart.
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Some athletes who didn't born in Russia, but represented in this country in Olympics :
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Davit_Chakvetadzehttps://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Teymuraz_Gabashvilihttps://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aleksander_Lesunhttps://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Donata_Rim%C5%A1ait%C4%97https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Seda_Tutkhalyanhttps://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yana_Egorianhttps://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mikhail_AloyanThere only small part of them. Mostly of these faucet earlier represented their native countries, but later they decided to move to Russia because of financial reasons and for better conditions of infrastructure. As you can see, many of athletes born after USSR collapse, so, they had only one citizenship. So, now representing Russia when they can participate under native country flag is mostly chasing for bigger money.
Judging by the names, 2 Georgians, 3 Armenians and possibly 2 of Jewish origin. Opening some random names:
Yana Egorian was born on 20 December 1993 in Yerevan, Armenia. When she was 6 years old, she moved to Khimki, Moscow Oblast, where she engaged in fencing under the guidance of Sergei Semin. Later, Yelena Jemayeva also started to train her. She chose sabre fencing as her specialty.
But, wait - there's more, she was born in Tbilisi, Georgia (!), and I'd love to see where her parents were born and of what nationality they are. As you see the ties are close.
Armenians and Russians, by the way, have close ties - there are a lot of Armenians among the prominent public figures in Russia. So what?
Another one:
Full name Mikhail Surenovich Aloyan
Born August 23, 1988 (age 28)
Bambakashat, Soviet Armenia
But, wait - there is more. He is from a Kurdish-Ezit family. His family moved to Novokuznetsk in Russia in 1997 (he was 9 years old then), where he started in boxing. So it's not like he moved to Russia for the sports contract reason.
Another one:
Teymuraz Besikovich Gabashvili
Born 23 May 1985 (age 31)
Tbilisi, Georgian SSR, Soviet Union
His family moved to Moscow when he was 9 years old.
So all this so far reinforces my earlier statement that they are not foreigners in Russia. 25 years since 1991 is too short a time span to make them foreigners.
Oh, and and saying that Belorussian is not a Russian is an absurdity:
Aleksander Leonidovich Lesun
Nationality Belarus (until 2009)
Russia (since 2009)
Born 1 July 1988 (age 28)
Barysaw, Belarus SSR, Soviet Union
So far he is the first of the random sample from above, who moved to Russia for career reasons, but still, he was born in that one country, called USSR, and, as you remember, before USSR there was no such thing as Belorussia, which is another of Lenin's creations - there was the
Minsk Governorate in Russia.
In this regard a quote from another thread, from another forum looks relevant (it's about Ukraine):
- In 1992 three crooks (Yeltsyn, Kravchuk, Shushkevitch) with Washington’s blessing have separated Ukraine and Belarus’ from Russia and declared them separate countries. So, they have been called separate countries for 24 years (can 24 years be compared to centuries?). The people living in Eastern Ukraine (including myself) felt like their Motherland has been stolen from them and found themselves living in a foreign and not friendly country of Ukraine. However Western Ukrainians were happy. (And since then what makes Western Ukrainians happy is bad for Eastern Ukrainians and vise verse).