In Russia, the first time the red banner was used in an uprising was in 1861 in Penza ... After the fall of the Russian Empire, the role of the state flag was performed by a rectangular red cloth ...

Mikhail Zygar, a Russian author and the founding editor of an independent television station called TV Rain, has written a book, The Empire Must Die, that, among other things, tells the story of ...

The Russian flag won’t appear at the Olympics. ... The Grand Duchy of Finland, an autonomous part of the Russian Empire, also had its own Olympic team in 1908 and 1912.

In the 18th century it became the flag of the Russian empire. Under Soviet power, the Russian federation flew the red flag, with hammer and sickle, but with a blue strip down the left border.