As many as 1,000 folks staged a spectacular stunt in Moscow, unfurling a large Russian tricolor as a part of nationwide celebrations honoring three and a half centuries of its historical past.
The flag – 2,500 sq. meters in dimension – spanned one of many essential avenues in Moscow on Saturday afternoon, with over a thousand volunteers and Moscow residents serving to to unfurl it.
The flash mob already made it into Russia’s document books and attracted over 70,000 folks, who flocked to downtown Moscow to see the big flag, the mayor’s workplace stated.
Individually, one other banner was unfurled on the identical venue, that includes the flags of lots of of Russian cities. Put collectively, they had been apparently meant to indicate each the range and unity of the nation.
The earliest point out of the flag dates again to the late 17th century, related to the primary Russian naval ship, the frigate Oryol (eagle). Later it grew to become the official flag of Tsarist Russia, and remained so till the 1917 Revolution. It was later changed by the enduring pink flag with hammer and sickle.
In 1991, the white-blue-red flag was introduced again, adopted as a nationwide image of post-Soviet Russia.
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