Boris Yeltsin, who later became the first president of the Russian Federation, embraced the tri-color flag as a symbol of democracy and freedom against the communists. On Aug. 19, 1991, Yeltsin, ...
Russian military on Saturday, Dec. 14, reportedly raised the flag of the Russian Federation on the administration building in Kurakhove, a city in the Pokrovsky district of Ukraine’s Donetsk region.
Authorities in Azerbaijan, Kazakhstan and Russia were tight-lipped about a possible cause of the crash but a lawmaker in Azerbaijan blamed Moscow. Rasim Musabekov told the Azerbaijani news agency ...