Flags are powerful symbols that communicate a nation’s identity, values, and even political history. Today, we're looking at ...

National Flag Day was created by a presidential decree in 1994. On August 22, 1991, the Supreme Soviet of the Russian Soviet Federative Socialist Republic passed a resolution establishing the ...

The Russian and the Polish flags were flying at the Katyn memorial, erected in memory of the 25,000 Poles, mostly army officers deemed anti-communist, massacred by the Soviet Union's political ...

A red banner symbolising the Soviet ... Russian Cosmonaut Training Center on Wednesday for future delivery to the International Space Station (ISS). The banner, a replica of the Soviet flag ...

Soviet World War II victory flags are appearing in Russian-occupied Ukrainian towns, CNN reported, as Western intelligence says Russia likely wants to secure major progress in its invasion ahead ...

Voters in Georgia went to the polls on Saturday in the most important election since the country's independence from the Soviet Union in 1991. But two days later, tens of thousands rallied in front of ...

On November 9, 1918, following the collapse of the Russian empire and shortly after the formation ... was added to the left ...

This story appears in the December 2016 issue of National Geographic ... just months before he was born, the Soviet flag came down over the Kremlin and the Russian tricolor went up, ushering ...