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Flag Coat of Arms / National Emblem Map English short name English long name Legal status Domestic short name Domestic long name Capital Palestine: State of Palestine Observer state at the United Nations Arabic: فلسـطين Filasțīn: Arabic: دولة فلسـطين Dawlat Filasțīn: Ramallah (de facto) Jerusalem (de jure) Vatican City
Russia, [b] or the Russian Federation, [c] is a country spanning Eastern Europe and North Asia.It is the largest country in the world by land area, extending across eleven time zones and sharing land borders with fourteen countries.
The establishment of the flag and emblem was provided in the literature of article 12, item 20 [2] of the treaty establishing the Eurasian Economic Union, which was ratified on May 29, 2014, and the symbols were published on October 10, 2014, by decision number 76 which was approved by decision of the Supreme Economic Council of Eurasia.
In the Soviet Union, a Union Republic was a constituent federated political entity with a system of government called a Soviet republic, which was officially defined in the 1977 constitution as "a sovereign Soviet socialist state which has united with the other Soviet republics to form the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics" [12] [13] and whose sovereignty is limited by membership in the Union.
National flags are adopted by governments to strengthen national bonds and legitimate formal authority. Such flags may contain symbolic elements of their peoples, militaries, territories, rulers, and dynasties. The flag of Denmark is the oldest flag still in current use as it has been recognized as a national symbol since the 14th century.
Eurasia is considered a supercontinent, part of the supercontinent of Afro-Eurasia or simply a continent in its own right. [7] In plate tectonics, the Eurasian Plate includes Europe and most of Asia but not the Indian subcontinent, the Arabian Peninsula or the area of the Russian Far East east of the Chersky Range.
In order to accede, a state must fulfill the economic and political requirements. Enlargement of the Union is also subject to the consent of all existing members and the candidate's adoption of the existing body of EEU law and implementing previous decisions made by the Eurasian Commission, which become part of the EEU's regulatory framework.
The national flag of the Russian Federation (Russian: Государственный флаг Российской Федерации, Gosudarstvenny flag Rossiyskoy Federatsii) is a tricolour of three equal horizontal bands: white on the top, blue in the middle, and red on the bottom.