Russian military vehicles are flying Soviet hammer and sickle flags in Ukraine "A majority of Russians continue to say the collapse of the Soviet Union has been a bad thing for their country." By ...

In Soviet Russia, the five-pointed star symbolized the protection of peacetime labor by the Red Army (again, like in Ancient Rome, where Mars was also the protector of the agricultural workers).

A Russian soldier, photographed in Ukraine's Donetsk region in July 2023, wears the Soviet victory banner, a flag that was raised over Germany's Reichstag by Red Army troops in May 1945.

People carry red flags and banners as they take part in the Immortal Regiment march during the Victory Day military parade in Moscow on May 9, 2015. Russian President Vladimir Putin presided over ...

Reflections on the 30th anniversary of the fall of the Soviet Union. ... On Dec. 25, 1991, at 7:32 p.m., the Soviet flag came down over the Kremlin, ... having ruled out a military response, ...

“The Russian flag has become a symbol of resistance in West Africa, affiliated with anti-West and anti-French attitudes,” said Kyle Walter, the head of research at Logically, a technology ...