INSUBCONTINENT EXCLUSIVE:
in an address marking National Flag Day on Monday.Nearly six months after launching a full-scale invasion of neighboring Ukraine that has
pushed Russia into historic political and economic isolation, Putin vowed that Moscow would continue charting its own course in the
22 since then-President Boris Yeltsin introduced it in 1994.The Russian tricolor itself was restored on Aug
22, 1991, following the collapse of the Soviet Union and its national symbol, a golden hammer and sickle against a red background.Some
Russian anti-war activists have begun using a white-blue-white flag design following the Ukraine invasion, removing the red stripe in
Novgorod Republic, considered by many to be the cradle of Russian democracy.
