While it served as an official state flag of Belarus from 1991 to 1995, ... The current design of the Belarusian flag was introduced after a controversial referendum in 1995.

During Belarus's independence after the collapse of the Russian Empire, the country used a white-red-white flag as its tricolour. It harked back to the days of the Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth of ...

Belarus' current official red-green flag includes and embroidered pattern and dates back to 1951, when the country was still part of the Soviet Union. International outrage over forced landing.