The banner, a replica of the Soviet flag raised by three Red Army soldiers ... The Victory Banner has been kept at the Central Museum of the Russian Armed Forces since June 1945.

National Flag Day was created by a presidential decree in 1994. On August 22, 1991, the Supreme Soviet of the Russian Soviet Federative Socialist Republic passed a resolution establishing the ...

Sasha survived the Nineties too. In December 1991, just months before he was born, the Soviet flag came down over the Kremlin and the Russian tricolor went up, ushering in the decade that hangs ...