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no it means (Окраина) Outskirts
Borderlands would be (Граница). Totally different word.
That’s in today’s language with administrative borders.
Back in the day kraina would be the “edge” of the territory you control.
In most Slavic languages it’s like that
Genetically speaking "pure" Slavs (not talking about half Slavs and Fins in northern Russia) from East to West are virtually identical.
It’s more linguistically speaking. You have Russian speakers, polish speakers, Czech speakers n south Slavs. Everybody else is a mix