Anti-racism experts say they identified racist abuse and far-right Russian flags at a European Championship match on Friday. The Football Against Racism in Europe (FARE) network says Czech ...

In the 18th century it became the flag of the Russian empire. Under Soviet power, the Russian federation flew the red flag, with hammer and sickle, but with a blue strip down the left border.

For any Russian person, for any person of Russian culture it sounds bizarre. For anyone who understands the retrospective of our national consciousness for the last 1,000 years.