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Several people created the idea of the white-blue-white flag shortly after the Russian invasion of Ukraine started on 24 February 2022. Kai Katonina, a Berlin-based user experience designer, and a Russia-based art manager with the pseudonym "Fish Sounds" (Звуки Рыб, Zvuki Ryb), [2] [3] also known as "AssezJeune ", [8] are each credited with having created the flag.
A white-yellow-black tricolor was presented on 13 August 2014 by Oleg Tsaryov as a potential flag for the confederation of the Donetsk and Luhansk People's Republics. [29] [better source needed] This resembled an upside-down Romanov flag, which was the national flag of the Russian Empire from 1858 to 1883. Some have noted that the flag's design ...
The white-blue-white flag is an anti-war symbol created by removing the red from the Russian flag. According to anti-war protesters, the red represented blood and violence, and the flag attempts to evoke the legacy of the Novgorod Republic as an example of democracy. However, not all protesters appreciated the flag.
Ukraine’s ambassador to the Vatican, Andrii Yurash, told NBC News that Kyiv could not accept that the victim of the aggression, rather than the aggressor, was being asked to raise the white flag.
Putin introduced prison sentences of up to 15 years for publishing "fake news" about Russian military operations. [112] More than 2,000 people were charged by May 2022 under the laws prohibiting "fake" information about the military. [113] As of December 2022, more than 4,000 people were prosecuted for criticizing the war in Ukraine. [114]
ROME (Reuters) -Pope Francis has said in an interview that Ukraine should have what he called the courage of the "white flag" and negotiate an end to the war with Russia that followed Moscow's ...
In 2012, the term white ribbon opposition was applied to the protesters for fair elections as they wore white ribbons as their symbol. [23] The white-blue-white flag is a symbol of opposition to the 2022 Russian invasion of Ukraine that has been used by Russian anti-war protesters. It has also been used as a symbol of opposition to the current ...
President Donald Trump has issued a warning to Russian leader Vladimir Putin on his first day in office. As the 47th president settles into his role at the White House, he was asked about the ...