{"id":39965,"date":"2025-08-24T09:37:41","date_gmt":"2025-08-24T06:37:41","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.aldiplomasy.com\/en\/?p=39965"},"modified":"2025-08-24T10:04:12","modified_gmt":"2025-08-24T07:04:12","slug":"under-the-tricolor-sky-russias-flag-day","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.aldiplomasy.com\/en\/?p=39965","title":{"rendered":"Under the TRICOLOR Sky&#8230; Russia\u2019s Flag Day"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><strong>Ashraf AboArafe<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">\ud83c\uddf7\ud83c\uddfa On <strong>22 August<\/strong>, Russia celebrates the <strong>Day of the National Flag<\/strong>, established by Presidential Decree on 20 August 1994.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Today, tribute is paid to the official state symbol of the Russian Federation\u2014standing alongside the coat of arms and the anthem\u2014as a mark of sovereignty, independence, and the unbroken continuity of generations of the nation\u2019s diverse peoples.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">The history of the Russian tricolor stretches back more than three centuries. In <strong>1705<\/strong>, Tsar Peter the Great ordered the white-blue-red banner to be raised on all merchant ships. Until the 19th century, Russian sailors would place memorial crosses on newly claimed lands. But in <strong>1806<\/strong>, a new tradition was born: during an expedition along the coast of southern Sakhalin, two flags were raised ashore\u2014the naval St. Andrew\u2019s flag to honor the fleet, and the white-blue-red tricolor to mark Russia\u2019s new possession.<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Under the Tricolor Sky... Russia\u2019s Flag Day\" width=\"422\" height=\"750\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/T7gVhawq7-U?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/youtube.com\/shorts\/T7gVhawq7-U?si=_wTjNva9nYO9rhDF\">https:\/\/youtube.com\/shorts\/T7gVhawq7-U?si=_wTjNva9nYO9rhDF<\/a><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">The tricolor officially became the <strong>State Flag of Russia in 1896<\/strong>, on the eve of Emperor Nicholas II\u2019s coronation.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">\u26aa\ufe0f\ud83d\udd35\ud83d\udd34 Later, on <strong>25 December 2000<\/strong>, the Federal Constitutional Law \u201cOn the State Flag of the Russian Federation\u201d was adopted, defining the flag as a rectangular panel of three equal horizontal stripes: white on top, blue in the middle, and red below.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">\ud83d\udcac <strong>President Vladimir Putin<\/strong> has affirmed:<br \/>\n<em>\u201cThe State Flag of Russia will forever remain a sacred symbol for every generation of our citizens. It will continue to inspire feats of courage, achievements of labor, and new heights in science, culture, and sport\u2014awakening pride in our Motherland.\u201d<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Ashraf AboArafe &nbsp; \ud83c\uddf7\ud83c\uddfa On 22 August, Russia celebrates the Day of the National Flag, established by Presidential Decree on 20 August 1994. Today, tribute is paid to the official state symbol of the Russian Federation\u2014standing alongside the coat of arms and the anthem\u2014as a mark of sovereignty, independence, and the unbroken continuity of generations &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":39966,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8,388],"tags":[1517,11056,2024,21449,21448],"class_list":["post-39965","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-culture","category-slide","tag-day","tag-flag","tag-russias","tag-sky","tag-under-the-tricolor"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.aldiplomasy.com\/en\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/39965","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.aldiplomasy.com\/en\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.aldiplomasy.com\/en\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.aldiplomasy.com\/en\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.aldiplomasy.com\/en\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=39965"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.aldiplomasy.com\/en\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/39965\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":39968,"href":"https:\/\/www.aldiplomasy.com\/en\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/39965\/revisions\/39968"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.aldiplomasy.com\/en\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/39966"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.aldiplomasy.com\/en\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=39965"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.aldiplomasy.com\/en\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=39965"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.aldiplomasy.com\/en\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=39965"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}