Meanwhile, a black eagle is on Germany’s coat of arms. Russia’s eagle, however, is special – it’s double-headed, with each head looking in opposite directions.

Some coats of arms represent a fusion of tsarist and Soviet symbols. The coat of arms of the Bryansk Region features an 18th-century drawing crowned with a hammer and sickle.

The coat of arms in question has a picture of a Prussian man with a horn and the Latin initials G.F. for the Regent of Prussia George Frederick, margrave of Brandenburg-Ansbach (1543–1603), who ...

“Together with the coat of arms, we’ve disposed the markers of our belonging to the ‘post-Soviet space’. We are not ‘post-’, but sovereign, independent and free Ukraine.” Save ...

But now, instead of the hammer-and-sickle emblem, the shield features the Ukrainian tryzub, the trident that was adopted as the coat of arms of independent Ukraine on Feb. 19, 1992.