That's control, not necessarily borders. You can control areas that are outside your borders; other countries may be occupied. When Russia (and other nations) occupied parts of Europe after WW2 they had effective control over the occupied nations but in most cases their borders didn't expand to envelope those nations. Real life borders exist only on paper and may or may not correlate with area of control.
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