Mr. Schmemann is a member of the editorial board. On Dec. 25, 1991, at 7:32 p.m., the Soviet flag came down over the Kremlin, and the pre-revolutionary Russian flag of white, blue and red ...

Russian soldiers have begun raising Soviet-era flags in recently occupied areas of Ukraine. On April 19 in the southern city of Kherson, troops from a Rosgvardia police unit hoisted the red ...

A reproduction of the original negative of a photo documenting the raising of the Soviet flag over the Reichstag ... whose officers added smoke in the background to illustrate the intensity ...

Contrary to online claims, a collage showing a Ukrainian flag being removed and a flag of the Soviet Union raised on a flagpole does not depict a recent scene in Mariupol during the Russian ...