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	Flag of Russia information - Search.com
		This flag was used as naval and military ensign since 1693 at least, and was adopted as a merchant flag in 1705.
		Allegedly, he based Russia's flag on the flag of the Netherlands, making it a tricolour with three equal horizontal fields, but he chose Russian colors for it (the flag of the Netherlands at that time was orange, white and blue, with no red).
		A variant of the flag was authorised for private use by Tsar Nicholas II during World War I, adding the Romanov eagle on a yellow field in a canton in the top left-hand corner.
	webshots.search.com /reference/Flag_of_Russia (596 words)

	Flag of Russia - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Romanov dynastic flag was used as the official national flag of the Russian Empire from 1858 to 1883.
		He based Russia's flag on the flag of the Netherlands, making it a tricolour with three equal horizontal fields, but he chose Russian colors for it (the flag of the Netherlands at that time was orange, white and blue, with no red).
		This flag was thus in use as naval ensign since the 1600s, and was adopted as a merchant flag in 1705.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Russian_Flag (444 words)

	Encyclopedia: Flag of Russian SFSR
		This flag was adopted by the Russian SFSR in 1954.
		Between 1937 and the adoption of the above flag, the flag was red with the gold Cyrillic characters РСФСР (RSFSR) in the top-left corner, in a serif font.
		Armenian SSR - Azerbaijan SSR - Byelorussian SSR - Estonian SSR - Georgian SSR - Kazakh SSR - Kirghiz SSR - Latvian SSR - Lithuanian SSR - Moldavian SSR - Russian SFSR - Tadzhik SSR - Turkmen SSR - Ukrainian SSR - Uzbek SSR
	www.nationmaster.com /encyclopedia/Flag-of-Russian-SFSR (193 words)

	Russia in the Soviet Union (later flags) (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-04)
		The flag for the RSFSR was revised in 1954 to contain a bar at the hoist of 1/8 the length of the flag.
		Could the flag of the Commander of Naval Forces of the Soviet Russian Navy (1921-1924) have been the precursor for the design of the later RSFSR flag, red with a vertical blue stripe at the hoist?… I note that the RSFSR was the only SSR flag only with non-horizontal stripes.
		The Russian flag (white-blue-red) was approved as National flag in August 1991 by the Supreme Soviet of RSFSR and was used together with the soviet era flag for a few months until finally adopted by decree of the Congress of People’s Deputies in December 1991.
	www.crwflags.com /fotw/flags/su-ru.html (833 words)

	Encyclopedia: Flag of Russia
		Imperial Russia is the term used to cover the period of Russian history from the expansion of Russia under Peter the Great, through the expansion of the Russian Empire from the Baltic to the Pacific Ocean, to the deposal of Nicholas II of Russia, the last tsar, at the start...
		Flag ratio: 2:3 The national flag of the Netherlands, with its three equal horizontal bands coloured red (top), white and blue, was not the countrys first flag.
		Flag ratio: 1:2 This flag was adopted by the Russian SFSR in 1954.
	www.nationmaster.com /encyclopedia/Flag-of-Russia (1577 words)

	Flag of Chechnya - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-04)
		The flag of Chechnya is a rectangle with sides in the ratio 2:3, the same ratio as the flag of the Russian Federation.
		The flag is composed of three horizontal bars of, from top to bottom: green, representing Islam; white; and red; superimposed on them is a narrow vertical white band at the hoist side, containing the national ornament, a design of three golden scroll shapes.
		From 1957 to 1978, the flag of Chechen-Ingush ASSR was based on the flag of Russian SFSR with the addition of the abbreviated name of the republic (НГ1АССР in Chechen and Ingush, and ЧИАССР in Russian).
	www.voyager.in /Flag_of_Chechnya (597 words)

	Search Encyclopedia.com (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-04)
		Russian language -> Historical Development The historical development of Russian is not easy to trace because until the 17th cent.
		Russian literature -> Western Influence: The Seventeenth and Eighteenth Centuries Western influence was manifest in the 17th cent.
		Russian language Russian language, also called Great Russian, member of the East Slavic group of the Slavic subfamily of the Indo-European family of languages (see Slavic languages).
	www.encyclopedia.com /searchpool.asp?target=Flag+of+Russian+SFSR (616 words)

	Flag of Russia
		Most flagbooks trace the origin of Russian flag to Peter the Great's visit to the Netherlands in 1699.
		So, he based the plan of the flag of Russia on the Flag of the Netherlands, making it a tricolour with three equal horizontal fields, but he chose Russian colors for it (the flag of the Netherlands at that time was orange-white-blue, it had no red).
		The current flag was re-adopted by Russia on August 22, 1991.
	pedia.newsfilter.co.uk /wikipedia/f/fl/flag_of_russia.html (323 words)

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