Men wait near the Abkhazian border Wednesday, Feb. 5, 2014, near Sochi, Russia. Abkhazia is a festering geopolitical sore, and the economic system still operating in these and many other parts of Russia is decidedly 19th century. As Russia opens its doors to a curious world with the Sochi Games, places like this border expose the vast contradictions still gripping the one-time superpower 21 years after the Soviet Union collapsed. (AP Photo/Morry Gash)
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