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Russia Flag
Russia’s state flag is a white, blue, and red horizontal tricolour. The official Kremlin state-symbol site says federal constitutional law governs it an...
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About Russia and its flag
Russia’s state flag is a white, blue, and red horizontal tricolour. The official Kremlin state-symbol site says federal constitutional law governs it and specifies three equal stripes with a 2:3 width-to-length proportion.
Flag design and meaning
The flag is a plain rectangle with three equal horizontal stripes: white at the top, blue in the middle, and red at the bottom. Its official proportion is two units high by three units long; the law does not fix precise blue or red shades.
- The white–blue–red tricolour: The official account frames the flag’s return as restoring a national tricolour with more than 300 years of history, associating the whole design with historical continuity.
History and adoption
According to the official Kremlin account, white–blue–red flags were used on vessels under Peter the Great, including in 1693. Use changed over later centuries; a 1990 commission chose a return to the tricolour, and the 25 December 2000 constitutional law set its legal status and use.
How to recognise this flag
- Look for a plain, emblem-free horizontal tricolour: white over blue over red.
- Check that the three stripes are the same height and the flag is 2:3; blue is the middle stripe, not the top one.
Russia flag quiz context
On Name The Flag, the Russia flag is currently grouped as easy difficulty for quiz progression.
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