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The white-red-white flag (Byel-chyrvona-byely stsyah) is a historical flag used by the Belarusian Democratic Republic in 1918 before Western Belarus was occupied by the Second Polish Republic and Eastern Belarus was occupied by the Bolsheviks (two years later becoming the Byelorussian Soviet Socialist Republic).[1]

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  1. 92 relations: Al Jazeera English, Alexander Lukashenko, Anti-war protests in Russia (2022–present), Atlántico Department, Badische Zeitung, Baltic states, Belarus, Belarus Today, Belarusian Auxiliary Police, Belarusian Central Council, Belarusian Christian Democracy, Belarusian Democratic Republic, Belarusian diaspora, Belarusian Home Defence, Belarusian language, Belarusian opposition, Belarusian Peasants' and Workers' Union, Belarusian Popular Front, Belgium, Belsat TV, Berlare, Bolsheviks, Brielle, Byelorussian collaboration with Nazi Germany, Byelorussian Soviet Socialist Republic, CMYK color model, Coat of arms of Lithuania, Collaboration with Nazi Germany and Fascist Italy, Colombia, Defacement (flag), Dziady, Eastern Belorussia, Enschede, Estonia, European Radio for Belarus, Flag of Austria, Flag of Belarus, Flag of Nazi Germany, Flag of South Vietnam, Francišak Bahuševič, Freedom Day (Belarus), Funke Mediengruppe, German occupation of Byelorussia during World War II, Glasnost, Grand Duchy of Lithuania, Human Rights Watch, Klawdziy Duzh-Dushewski, Latvia, Lithuania, Lithuanian Armed Forces, ... Expand index (42 more) »

  2. Activism flags
  3. Flag controversies
  4. Flags introduced in 1918
  5. Flags introduced in 1991
  6. Flags of Belarus
  7. National symbols of Belarus

Al Jazeera English

Al Jazeera English (AJE; lit) is a 24-hour English-language news channel operating under Al Jazeera Media Network, which is partially funded by the government of Qatar.

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Alexander Lukashenko

Alexander Grigoryevich Lukashenko (also transliterated as Alyaksandr Ryhoravich Lukashenka; born 30 August 1954) is a Belarusian politician who has been the president of Belarus since the office's establishment in 1994, currently the longest in Europe.

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Anti-war protests in Russia (2022–present)

Following the Russian invasion of Ukraine on 24 February 2022, anti-war demonstrations and protests broke out across Russia.

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Atlántico Department

Atlántico (Atlantic) is a department of Colombia, located in northern Colombia with the Caribbean Sea to its north, the Bolívar Department to its west and south separated by the Canal del Dique, and the Magdalena Department to its east separated by the Magdalena River.

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Badische Zeitung

The Badische Zeitung (Baden Newspaper) is a German newspaper based in Freiburg im Breisgau, covering the South Western part of Germany and the Black Forest region.

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Baltic states

The Baltic states or the Baltic countries is a geopolitical term encompassing Estonia, Latvia, and Lithuania.

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Belarus

Belarus, officially the Republic of Belarus, is a landlocked country in Eastern Europe.

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Belarus Today

Belarus Today (italic) is a state run publisher in Belarus; it controls numerous media entities such as their current namesake publication Belarus Today.

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Belarusian Auxiliary Police

The Belarusian Auxiliary Police (Biełaruskaja dapamožnaja palicyja) was a German force established in July 1941 in occupied Belarus, staffed by local inhabitants, and considered collaborationist.

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Belarusian Central Council

The Belarusian Central Council (Biełaruskaja centralnaja rada; Weißruthenischer Zentralrat) was a puppet administrative body in German-occupied Belarus during World War II.

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Belarusian Christian Democracy

The Belarusian Christian Democracy (Bielaruskaja chryścijanskaja demakratyja; Belorusskaya khristianskaya demokratiya; BCD or BKhD) is a Christian-democratic political party in Belarus, established in 2005, which claims to be the continuation of a identically named movement, which existed at the beginning of the 20th century.

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Belarusian Democratic Republic

The Belarusian People's Republic (BNR; Biełaruskaja Narodnaja Respublika, БНР), also known as the Belarusian Democratic Republic, was a state proclaimed by the Council of the Belarusian Democratic Republic in its Second Constituent Charter on 9 March 1918 during World War I. The Council proclaimed the Belarusian Democratic Republic independent in its Third Constituent Charter on 25 March 1918 during the occupation of contemporary Belarus by the Imperial German Army.

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Belarusian diaspora

The Belarusian diaspora (Biełaruskaja dyjaspara) refers to emigrants from the territory of Belarus as well as to their descendants.

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Belarusian Home Defence

The Belarusian Home Defence, or Belarusian Home Guard (Biełaruskaja krajovaja abarona, BKA; Weißruthenische Heimwehr) were collaborationist volunteer battalions formed by the Belarusian Central Council (1943–1944), a pro-Nazi Belarusian self-government within Reichskommissariat Ostland during World War II.

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Belarusian language

Belarusian (label) is an East Slavic language.

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Belarusian opposition

The Belarusian opposition consists of groups and individuals in Belarus seeking to challenge, from 1988 to 1991, the authorities of Soviet Belarus, and since 1995, the leader of the country Alexander Lukashenko (allied with Vladimir Putin), whom supporters of the movement often consider to be a dictator.

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Belarusian Peasants' and Workers' Union

The Belarusian Peasants' and Workers' Union or the Hramada (Biełaruskaja Sialanska-Rabotnickaja Hramada, Białoruska Włościańsko-Robotnicza Hromada) was a socialist agrarian political party created in 1925 by a group of Belarusian deputies to the Sejm of the Second Polish Republic that included Branislaw Tarashkyevich, Symon Rak-Michajłoŭski (be), Piotra Miatła (be), and the founder of Hramada Pavieł Vałošyn (be).

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The Belarusian Popular Front "Revival" (BPF, Беларускі Народны Фронт "Адраджэньне", БНФ; Biełaruski Narodny Front "Adradžeńnie", BNF) was a social and political movement in Belarus in the late 1980s and 1990s whose goals were national revival of Belarus, its democratization and independence from the Soviet Union.

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Belgium

Belgium, officially the Kingdom of Belgium, is a country in Northwestern Europe.

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Belsat TV

Belsat (Белсат; Biełsat; stylised as B☰LSAT) is a Polish free-to-air terrestrial and satellite television channel aimed at Belarus.

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Berlare

Berlare is a municipality located in the Belgian province of East Flanders.

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Bolsheviks

The Bolsheviks (italic,; from большинство,, 'majority'), led by Vladimir Lenin, were a far-left faction of the Marxist Russian Social Democratic Labour Party (RSDLP) which split with the Mensheviks at the Second Party Congress in 1903.

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Brielle

Brielle, also called Den Briel in Dutch and Brill in English, is a town and historic seaport in the western Netherlands, in the province of South Holland, on the north side of the island of Voorne-Putten, at the mouth of the New Maas.

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Byelorussian collaboration with Nazi Germany

During World War II, some Belarusians collaborated with the invading Axis powers.

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The Byelorussian Soviet Socialist Republic (BSSR or Byelorussian SSR; Беларуская Савецкая Сацыялістычная Рэспубліка; Белорусская Советская Социалистическая Республика), also known as Byelorussia, was a republic of the Soviet Union (USSR).

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CMYK color model

The CMYK color model (also known as process color, or four color) is a subtractive color model, based on the CMY color model, used in color printing, and is also used to describe the printing process itself.

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Coat of arms of Lithuania

The coat of arms of Lithuania is a mounted armoured knight holding a sword and shield, known as Vytis.

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Collaboration with Nazi Germany and Fascist Italy

In World War II, many governments, organizations and individuals collaborated with the Axis powers, "out of conviction, desperation, or under coercion." Nationalists sometimes welcomed German or Italian troops they believed would liberate their countries from colonization.

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Colombia

Colombia, officially the Republic of Colombia, is a country primarily located in South America with insular regions in North America.

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Defacement (flag)

In vexillology, defacement is the addition of a symbol or charge to a flag.

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Dziady

Dziady ("grandfathers, eldfathers", sometimes translated as Forefathers' Eve) is a term in Slavic folklore for the spirits of the ancestors and a collection of pre-Christian rites, rituals and customs that were dedicated to them.

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Eastern Belorussia

Eastern Belorussia (Eastern Belarus; translit) is a historical region of Belarus traditionally inhabited by members of the Eastern Orthodox Church, in contrast to the largely-Catholic western Belorussia.

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Enschede

Enschede (known as Eanske in the local Tweants dialect of Low Saxon) is a city and municipality in the province of Overijssel.

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Estonia

Estonia, officially the Republic of Estonia, is a country by the Baltic Sea in Northern Europe.

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European Radio for Belarus

European Radio for Belarus (ERB; Eŭrapéjskaje Rádyjo dla Biełarúsi; Европейское радио для Беларуси), also known as Euroradio (Еврорадио), is an international radio station that provides independent news, information, and entertainment to the citizens of Belarus.

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Flag of Austria

The national flag of Austria (Flagge Österreichs) is a triband in the following order: red, white, and red. White-red-white flag and flag of Austria are flags introduced in 1918 and national flags.

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Flag of Belarus

The state flag of Belarus (Sciah Biełarusi) is a red-green bicolour with a red-on-white ornament pattern placed at the hoist (staff) end. White-red-white flag and flag of Belarus are flag controversies, flags of Belarus, national flags and national symbols of Belarus.

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Flag of Nazi Germany

The flag of Nazi Germany, officially the flag of the German Reich, featured a red background with a black swastika on a white disc.

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Flag of South Vietnam

The flag of South Vietnam was first introduced by the Provisional Central Government of Vietnam, later served as the national flag of the State of Vietnam (known as "South Vietnam" after 1954), and its successor, the Republic of Vietnam (South Vietnam) from 1948 to 1975 until the fall of Saigon. White-red-white flag and flag of South Vietnam are activism flags and flag controversies.

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Francišak Bahuševič

Francišak Bahuševič (Францішак Багушэвіч; Franciszek Bohuszewicz; –) was a Belarusian poet, writer and lawyer, considered to be one of the initiators of modern Belarusian literature.

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Freedom Day (Belarus)

Freedom Day (Dzień Voli; Den' voli) is an unofficial holiday in Belarus celebrated on 25 March to commemorate the declaration of independence by the Belarusian Democratic Republic by the Third Constituent Charter on that date in 1918.

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Funke Mediengruppe

Funke Mediengruppe (formerly WAZ-Mediengruppe) is Germany's third-largest newspaper and magazine publisher with a total of over 500 publications in eight countries.

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German occupation of Byelorussia during World War II

The German invasion of the Soviet Union started on 22 June 1941 and led to a German military occupation of Byelorussia until it was fully liberated in August 1944 as a result of Operation Bagration.

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Glasnost

Glasnost (гласность) is a concept relating to openness and transparency.

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Grand Duchy of Lithuania

The Grand Duchy of Lithuania was a sovereign state in northeastern Europe that existed from the 13th century, succeeding the Kingdom of Lithuania, to the late 18th century, when the territory was suppressed during the 1795 partitions of Poland–Lithuania.

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Human Rights Watch

Human Rights Watch (HRW) is an international non-governmental organization headquartered in New York City that conducts research and advocacy on human rights.

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Klawdziy Duzh-Dushewski

Kłaŭdzij Sciapanavič Duž-Dušeŭski (Клаўдзій Сцяпанавіч Дуж-Душэўскі; Klaudijus Dušauskas-Duž, Клавдий Степанович Дуж-Душевский; 27 March 1891 – 25 February 1959) was a Belarusian civil engineer, architect, diplomat and journalist.

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Latvia

Latvia (Latvija), officially the Republic of Latvia, is a country in the Baltic region of Northern Europe.

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Lithuania

Lithuania (Lietuva), officially the Republic of Lithuania (Lietuvos Respublika), is a country in the Baltic region of Europe.

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Lithuanian Armed Forces

The Lithuanian Armed Forces are the military of Lithuania.

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Meduza

Meduza (Russian: Медуза, named after the Greek goddess Medusa) is a Russian- and English-language independent news website, headquartered in Riga, Latvia.

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Mikhail Gorbachev

Mikhail Sergeyevich Gorbachev (2 March 1931 – 30 August 2022) was a Soviet and Russian politician who served as the last leader of the Soviet Union from 1985 to the country's dissolution in 1991.

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Minsk

Minsk (Мінск,; Минск) is the capital and the largest city of Belarus, located on the Svislach and the now subterranean Niamiha rivers.

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Nazi Germany

Nazi Germany, officially known as the German Reich and later the Greater German Reich, was the German state between 1933 and 1945, when Adolf Hitler and the Nazi Party controlled the country, transforming it into a totalitarian dictatorship.

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Netherlands

The Netherlands, informally Holland, is a country located in Northwestern Europe with overseas territories in the Caribbean.

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Perestroika

Perestroika (a) was a political reform movement within the Communist Party of the Soviet Union (CPSU) during the late 1980s, widely associated with CPSU general secretary Mikhail Gorbachev and his glasnost (meaning "transparency") policy reform.

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Poland

Poland, officially the Republic of Poland, is a country in Central Europe.

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Polish Armed Forces

The Armed Forces of the Republic of Poland (Siły Zbrojne Rzeczypospolitej Polskiej,; abbreviated SZ RP), also called the Polish Armed Forces and popularly called Wojsko Polskie in Poland (roughly the "Polish Military"—abbreviated WP) are the national armed forces of the Republic of Poland.

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Polish–Lithuanian Commonwealth

Poland–Lithuania, formally known as the Kingdom of Poland and the Grand Duchy of Lithuania and also referred to as the Polish–Lithuanian Commonwealth or the First Polish Republic, was a bi-confederal state, sometimes called a federation, of Poland and Lithuania ruled by a common monarch in real union, who was both King of Poland and Grand Duke of Lithuania.

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Polskie Radio

The Polish Radio (PR; Polish: Polskie Radio, PR) is a national public-service radio broadcasting organization of Poland, founded in 1925.

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Pravieniškės

Pravieniškės is a village in central Lithuania.

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Presidential Administration of Belarus

The Administration of the President of the Republic of Belarus (Администрация Президента Республики Беларусь, Адміністрацыя Прэзыдэнта Рэспублікі Беларусь) is a state administration body of Belarus that supervises the implementation of the resolutions of the President.

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Red

Red is the color at the long wavelength end of the visible spectrum of light, next to orange and opposite violet.

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RGB color model

The RGB color model is an additive color model in which the red, green and blue primary colors of light are added together in various ways to reproduce a broad array of colors.

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Romantic nationalism

Romantic nationalism (also national romanticism, organic nationalism, identity nationalism) is the form of nationalism in which the state claims its political legitimacy as an organic consequence of the unity of those it governs.

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Rowman & Littlefield

Rowman & Littlefield Publishing Group is an American independent academic publishing company founded in 1949.

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Södertörn University

Södertörn University (Södertörns högskola, abbreviated as SH) is a public university college (högskola) located in Flemingsberg in Huddinge Municipality, and the larger area called Södertörn, in Stockholm County, Sweden.

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Second Polish Republic

The Second Polish Republic, at the time officially known as the Republic of Poland, was a country in Central and Eastern Europe that existed between 7 October 1918 and 6 October 1939.

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Seven Stories Press

Seven Stories Press is an independent American publishing company.

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Siarhei Kavalenka

Siarhei Kavalenka (Сяргей Каваленка, born January 16, 1975) is a Belarusian political activist and member of the Conservative Christian Party sentenced for 2 years in prison after placing a white-red-white flag (i.e. the former Belarusian flag) on top of a Christmas tree in Vitsebsk in 2010.

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Slutsk uprising

The Slutsk uprising or the Slutsk defence (translit) was an unsuccessful armed attempt to establish an independent Belarus.

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Soviet invasion of Poland

The Soviet invasion of Poland was a military conflict by the Soviet Union without a formal declaration of war.

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Sviatlana Tsikhanouskaya

Sviatlana Hieorhiyeuna Tsikhanouskaya (born 11 September 1982) is a Belarusian political activist.

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The Guardian

The Guardian is a British daily newspaper.

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Triband (flag)

A triband is a vexillological style which consists of three stripes arranged to form a flag.

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Ukraine

Ukraine is a country in Eastern Europe.

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United States Government Publishing Office

The United States Government Publishing Office (USGPO or GPO), formerly the United States Government Printing Office, is an agency of the legislative branch of the United States Federal government.

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Vitebsk

Vitebsk or Vitsyebsk (Viciebsk,; Витебск) is a city in northern Belarus.

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Web colors

Web colors are colors used in displaying web pages on the World Wide Web; they can be described by way of three methods: a color may be specified as an RGB triplet, in hexadecimal format (a hex triplet) or according to its common English name in some cases.

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Western Belorussia

Western Belorussia or Western Belarus (translit; Zachodnia Białoruś; translit) is a historical region of modern-day Belarus which belonged to the Second Polish Republic during the interwar period.

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White Ruthenia

White Ruthenia (Biełaja Ruś; Ruś Biała; Belaya Rus'; Bila Ruś) is one of the historical divisions of Kievan Rus' according to the color scheme, which also includes Black and Red Ruthenia.

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White-blue-white flag

The white-blue-white flag is a symbol of opposition to the Russian invasion of Ukraine that has been used by Russian anti-war protesters. White-red-white flag and white-blue-white flag are activism flags.

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World War II

World War II or the Second World War (1 September 1939 – 2 September 1945) was a global conflict between two alliances: the Allies and the Axis powers.

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Wyszków, Wyszków County

Wyszków (ווישקאָוו Vishkov) is a town in eastern Poland with 26,500 inhabitants (2018).

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Yale University Press

Yale University Press is the university press of Yale University.

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1995 Belarusian referendum

A four-question referendum was held in Belarus on 14 May 1995, alongside parliamentary elections. White-red-white flag and 1995 Belarusian referendum are national symbols of Belarus.

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2006 Belarusian presidential election

Presidential elections were held in Belarus on 19 March 2006.

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2010 Belarusian presidential election

Presidential elections were held in Belarus on 19 December 2010.

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2015 Belarusian presidential election

Presidential elections were held in Belarus on 11 October 2015.

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2020 Belarusian presidential election

Presidential elections were held in Belarus on Sunday, 9 August 2020.

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2020–2021 Belarusian protests

The 2020–2021 Belarusian protests were a series of mass political demonstrations and protests against the Belarusian government and President Alexander Lukashenko.

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30th Waffen Grenadier Division of the SS

The 30th Waffen Grenadier Division of the SS (1st Belarusian), originally called the 30th Waffen Grenadier Division of the SS (2nd Russian), was a short-lived German Waffen-SS infantry division formed largely from Belarusian, Russian, Polish, and Ukrainian personnel of the Schutzmannschaft-Brigade Siegling in August 1944 at Warsaw in the General Government.

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See also

Activism flags

Flag controversies

Flags introduced in 1918

Flags introduced in 1991

Flags of Belarus

National symbols of Belarus

References

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/White-red-white_flag

Also known as Belarusian white-red-white flag, The white red white flag, The white-red-white flag, White red white flag, White-red-white, White-red-white Belarusian flag, White-red-white Belarussian flag, White-red-white alternative Belarusian flag, White-red-white alternative Belarussian flag, White—red—white flag.

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