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, 1991.

A white flag with a red stripe down the middle was the official flag of Belarus for several years, historically speaking. At the turn of the 19th–20th century, a cloth with this pattern was used among ...

On April 18th, 1924, the new design for the Soviet red flag was established, the one bearing emblems of hammer and sickle and the five-pointed star. What does the ‘hammer and sickle’ emblem ...

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 ...

After the fall of communism, the flag was reintroduced by President Alexander Lukashenko in 1995, but without the hammer and sickle. The red and white flag has since become a symbol of rebellion ...

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 Russian Federation’s current red, white, and blue flag was adopted in the 19th century and readopted after the fall of the Soviet Union (when the red hammer and sickle flag was used).

Rory Cooper is Director of Strategic Communications at The Heritage Foundation. In this position, Cooper coordinates the think tank’s external message and internal communications, manages its ...

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. The ...