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  1. SergeiΓÇÖs home country is Ukraine.
  2. But until 1991, he competed for the
  3. Soviet Union. Ukraine was then part
  4. of the Soviet Union. In 1991, the
  5. Soviet Union broke into 15 separate
  6. countries. At the 1992 Olympics, 12 
  7. of those countries, including
  8. Ukraine, competed together as the
  9. Commonwealth of Independent
  10. States, also known as the Unified
  11. Team. Since then, the former Soviet
  12. republics have competed as
  13. independent countries.