During the Soviet period, the official flag of the Byelorussian SSR was initially a plain red one, but it ended up as a red-and-green one with a decorative pattern on the left side and a golden hammer ...

For many years, the red banner with a hammer and sickle was the official flag of the USSR. The white, blue and red ‘tricolor’ came into use for the first time in modern history on August 22 ...

Why is its color red? What does the ‘hammer and sickle’ emblem represent? And what about the five-pointed star? Red flags and banners have been used by rioters, protesters and insurgents since ...

Ebert tweeted on May 6: Kids who wear American Flag t-shirts ... the hammer and sickle represented tyranny and oppression. Comparing five young students wearing the red, white and blue to a ...

A woman has been fined £650 for wearing red and white socks because they matched the colours of the Belarusian opposition nationalist movement's flag. The pedestrian was spotted in Minsk wearing ...

White Cube recently launched an online viewing salon that probes one of the more overlooked series in Andy Warhol‘s prolific pop art oeuvre. Warhol’s Hammer and Sickle paintings were initially ...

The past seems to be present as new footage posted to social media appears to show a Russian armored personnel carrier flying the red banner of ... flying the Soviet flag in Ukraine.

The white flag with a red stripe across it was the flag of ... replaced it with a red-and-green flag, including the hammer and sickle symbol and a traditional folk motif. That flag was ...

Ukraine's supreme court on Friday outlawed the use of the Soviet Union's hammer-and-sickle red flag for official events, marking a rare victory for the country's pro-Europe political camp.