The hammer and sickle flag was ditched following the collapse of the Soviet Union (USSR), which had been dominated by Russia, in 1991. The red flag was seen as a symbol of Russian oppression by ...

Heavily armed Russian troops have been filmed parading a Soviet Union flag as dozens of tanks and armored vehicles arolled through war-torn Ukraine. The footage, which was posted online by Russia ...

A series of photos shared on social media of Ukrainian flag being replaced with Soviet Union flag are from 2015, not 2022. ... It’s unrelated to Russia’s 2022 invasion of Ukraine.

YouTube, Raising the Soviet flag on Donbass, March 3, 2015 Visegrad24 tweet, April 18, 2022 The Guardian, Separatist commander killed in Ukraine , May 24, 2015 ...

In Russia, May 9, 1945 is when the surrender of Nazi Germany's forces was accepted by allied countries, including the Soviet Union. In Western Europe, victory over Nazi Germany is celebrated on May 8.

In December, Dmitry Peskov, the press security for Russian President Vladimir Putin, rejected the idea, suggested by the U.S., that Putin wants to "reconstitute the Soviet Union" as part of a ...

This file photo shows marchers bearing the Soviet Union-era World War Two victory flag during the Victory Day military parade in Moscow, Russia on May 9, 2015.

The first joint space mission between the United States and Russia (then the Soviet Union) docked in Earth orbit half a ...

Soviet flags keep rising over Russian-occupied Ukraine. ... Oxford researchers found that almost 50 percent of Russians they surveyed identified more with the Soviet Union than the Russian Federation.

Contrary to online claims, a collage showing a Ukrainian flag being removed and a flag of the Soviet Union raised on a flagpole does not depict a recent scene in Mariupol during the Russian ...

To understand the friction between Russia and Ukraine, it's important to go back to 1991. Exactly 30 years ago this weekend, the Soviet Union formally dissolved and broke up into 15 separate nations.

Poland's public broadcaster has apologized for showing the Soviet flag on one of its newscasts giving the result of the Euro 2012 co-host's match with Russia this week.