Geolocated footage shows that Russian troops have raised a Russian flag over a city municipal building in the town. Selydove, in Ukraine's Donetsk region, on November 15, 2023.

False flag alternatives. In any event, Russia has other options to facilitate an invasion. At the start of its incursion into Crimea in 2014, the Kremlin used ...

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3 The flag of Irkutsk featuring an unknown creature that appears, according to Russia-watcher Michael Elgort, to be a beaver with the legs of a platypus holding a fox in its mouth.

Russia will not be able to use its name, flag and anthem at the next two Olympics or at any world championships for the next two years after a ruling Thursday by the Court of Arbitration for Sport.

Tennis has struggled with its response to Russia’s invasion of Ukraine, which Belarus has supported. By Natasha Frost Belarusian and Russian flags have been banned from the Australian Open, the ...

Russia’s team name, flag and national anthem were banned from this year’s Tokyo Olympics and the 2022 Winter Games in Beijing by the Court of Arbitration for Sport. The CAS ruling imposed two years of ...