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Русский: Государственный флаг Российской Федерации
Español: Bandera de Rusia
Česky: Vlajka Ruska
Deutsch: Flagge Russlands
English: The flag of Russia. The colors came from the website of the Russian President. http://www.kremlin.ru/eng/articles/state_insignia_01_2.shtml
Dansk: Det russiske flag
Italiano: Bandiera della Russia.
ភាសាខ្មែរ: ទង់ជាតិរុស្ស៊ី
Slovenščina: državna zastava Rusije
Српски / Srpski: Државна застава Русије
Suomi: Venäjän lippu
Українська: Прапор Російської Федерації
Hrvatski: Ruska zastava
It is easy to put a border around this flag:
[[Image:Flag of Russia.svg|border|100px]]

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Public domain This image has been released into the public domain by its author, Zscout370. This applies worldwide.

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Public domain This work is not an object of copyright according to Part IV of Civil Code No. 230-FZ of the Russian Federation of December 18, 2006.

Article 1259. Objects of Copyright

Paragraph 5

Copyright shall not apply to ideas, concepts, principles, methods, processes, systems, means, solutions of technical, organizational and other problems, discoveries, facts, programming languages.

Paragraph 6

Shall not be objects of copyright:
  • official documents of state government agencies and local government agencies of municipal formations, including laws, other legal texts, judicial decisions, other materials of legislative, administrative and judicial character, official documents of international organizations, as well as their official translations;
  • state symbols and signs (flags, emblems, orders, banknotes, and the like), as well as symbols and signs of municipal formations;
  • works of folk art (folklore), which don't have specific authors;
  • news reports on events and facts, which have a purely informational character (daily news reports, television programs, transportation schedules, and the like).

Full text of the Code: in Russian.


Comment – According to interstate and international compacts, the Russian Federation is the legal successor of the Russian Soviet Federative Socialist Republic and the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics; therefore, this license tag is also applicable to official symbols and formal documents of the Russian SFSR and the USSR (union level[1]).

Warning – This license tag cannot be applied to proposed official symbols and drafts of formal documents, which can be copyrighted.


  1. The union level means that use of official symbols and the formal documents of 14 other Soviet Republics is the subject of law of their legal successor. See respective license tags.

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File history

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current23:55, 3 April 2008450×300 (279 B)Miyokan (Reverted to version as of 13:55, 23 September 2007)
15:36, 3 April 2008450×300 (2 KB)SeNeKa ({{Information |Description= |Source= |Date= |Author= |Permission= |other_versions= }} )
13:55, 23 September 2007450×300 (279 B)Westermarck (Reverted to version as of 18:16, 1 September 2007)
17:33, 22 September 2007450×300 (2 KB)R-41 (New colours based on those shown at http://www.vexilla-mundi.com under Russia)
18:16, 1 September 2007450×300 (279 B)Zscout370 (Reverted to version as of 22:51, 6 August 2007 (until a source is provided on the new colors))
23:28, 29 August 2007450×300 (2 KB)Nightstallion (less neon colors)
22:51, 6 August 2007450×300 (279 B)Zscout370 (Reverted to earlier revision)
05:00, 6 August 2007450×300 (2 KB)R-41 (Colours corrected to the shades commonly seen on official Russian flags.)
23:51, 18 July 2007450×300 (279 B)Westermarck (Reverted to earlier revision)
17:34, 18 July 2007450×300 (2 KB)R-41 (Reshaded the colours to be more like those used by the Kremlin. Even though these colour shades are most likely incorrect in historical use of the Russian flag. )
02:46, 18 July 2007450×300 (2 KB)R-41 (Lightened red just a little to make it closer to what is seen on other existing flags)
01:40, 18 July 2007450×300 (2 KB)R-41 (Although the Russian law on the flag does not describe the specific shades of the colours, much like Yugoslavia's government did not the blue has been written to be a sort of azure. The red is slightly darker than seen here. Vexillographers have been know)
09:11, 28 March 2007450×300 (279 B)Fibonacci (Optimised code.)
02:04, 5 August 2006450×300 (701 B)Zscout370 (Reverted to earlier revision)
06:25, 28 September 2005450×300 (1 KB)Zscout370 (The flag of Russia.)
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