In mid-June 2025, a rumor spread on social media claiming that the U.S. Department of Defense (DOD) shared a Flag Day post on X featuring two Russian flags.Flag Day, celebrated annually on June 14 ...

The flags flown at World's Fair Park represent countries that were at the 1982 World's Fair. Since Russia did not participate, the flag has not been flown there.

In April, Russian athletes bound for Tokyo displayed their “neutral” uniforms. The country is banned from using its name, flag or anthem at the Olympics, imposed in response to a systemic ...

For some in the Russian opposition, their country’s flag is something to be avoided: a tainted symbol of Putin’s Russia, not the Russia they would like to live in.