National Flag Day was created by a presidential decree in 1994. On August 22, 1991, the Supreme Soviet of the Russian Soviet Federative Socialist Republic passed a resolution establishing the ...

TASS/. Russian servicemen raised the Russian flag over the liberated settlement of Novoyelizavetovka in the Donetsk People’s Republic, the Defense Ministry said, releasing a video to that effect.

Isabel van Brugen is a Newsweek Reporter based in Kuala Lumpur. Her focus is reporting on the Russia-Ukraine war. Isabel joined Newsweek in 2021 and had previously worked with news outlets ...