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by Zach Harden, 16 March 2001
White flag with red cross is an official flag of Belarusian
Christian-Democratic Union (adopted 1991) and Unity of Belarusian
Students (swallow-tailed flag, officially adopted in 1992)
Victor Lomantsov, 16 May 2000
by Zachary Harden, 9 Febuary 2003
Flags from Belarus in German TV news (ARD and ZDF) - One flag
was a new one, I didn't see it before. A tricolore with vertical
white-red-black-stripes. Do anybody know this flag and its
meaning ?
J. Patrick Fischer, 10 September 2001
The Belarusian Resistance must be very similar than Belarusian
Nationalist Mouvement, or even part of it. The official flag used
by Belarusian Resistance is exactly like the Belorussian
Nationalist Mouvement one , but, according to Belarusian
Resistance's website (www.rubon.org)
they are using other flags too like the tricolor one plain
horizontal white,red and black stripes.
Santiago Tazon, 23 January 2003
In Belarus, the tricolore with horizontal white-red-black
stripes is a flag of belarusian ultra-conservatuve illegal party
called "Belarusian Freedom Party". As explained by a
member of this political party: "This is the traditional
white-red-white flag of Belarus with the black stripe which
symbolize the people who were killed during the soviet occupation
of the country, and it will be changed for the white stripe only
when Belarus will be really liberated from the soviet
past",
I. Shuk, 3 Febuary 2003
by Victor Lomantsov, 26 December 2002
Flag of Belorussian Nationalist Mouvement can be seen at <members.odinsrage.com/rubon/symb.html>.
Jens Pattke, 25 December 2002
The flag of nationalistic "Young Front" (youth
section of Belorussian People`s Front, BNF) was adopted 12, Nov,
1997 (1 year after 1st Congress of YF and foundation Council of
the Front, 12.11.1996)
Victor Lomantsov, 26 December 2002
Taking a look at the Belarus Nationalist flag, it's worth
noting that the double-armed cross at the center of the device
was also used as a collar tab for Waffen-SS personnel of the
Waffen Grenadier Division des SS (russiche Nr. 2), which
apparently was made up largely of Belarussian recruits.
John Evosevic, 28 December 2002
I can't speak or read Russian/Belarussian (apart from
transliterating the letters), but the English page looks very
racist. See: <members.odinsrage.com/rubon/engl_key.html>
for their "key concepts of nationalism". I guess
"nationalism" is the new code word for
"racism".
Dean McGee, 28 December 2002
by Antonio Martins and Jorge Candeias, 7 July
1997
From : http://pages.prodigy.com/belarus/
:
"Belarusian Popular Front (BPF) is a broad political
movement of the newly independent Republic of Belarus, a former
republic of the Soviet Union. The organizational committee of the
BPF was established in October 1988 by intellectuals such as
Vasil Bykau, Mikhas Dubyanyetski, Zyanon Paznyak and others. The
governing organization, the Soim, was formed during the Front's
first congress in June 1989. At the same time, the organization's
charter was adopted which specified BPF's dual objective: the
attainment of democracy and independence through national rebirth
and rebirth of civil society, which was destroyed by communism
and foreign occupation. Zyanon Paznyak was elected Chair of the
Soim. He is a well known historian and archeologist who defended
the Belarusian culture and language in the years of communist
tyranny. Among his accomplishments are the excavations in the
forest region of Kurapaty on the outskirts of Mensk (Minsk) where
communists had killed more than 250,000 people from 1925 to
1941"
Party flag and emblems can be seen also at the same page.
Dov Gutterman , 6 March 1999
Flags
by J. Patrick Fischer, 10 September 2001
by J. Patrick Fischer, 10 September 2001
by J. Patrick Fischer, 10 September 2001
by J. Patrick Fischer, 10 September 2001
by J. Patrick Fischer, 10 September 2001
by J. Patrick Fischer, 10 September 2001
Emblem
from http://www.zubr-belarus.com/,
located by J. Patrick Fischer, 10 September 2001
In reports of German TV ZDF, I could see different flags of
the political opposition group "Bison" (a European
buffalo, living in Belarus and Poland) in Minsk/Belarus. One was
hanging in one of the HQ at the wall. It was black with a side
view silhouette of a white Bison in the center. At the right and
the left side were thin vertical white-red-white stripes. Other
flags were shown at a demonstration, yesterday in Minsk. Again
the white Bison, but on different coloured backgrounds. I saw
red, light blue and green variations, all without the
white-red-white-stripes. I found the homepage of the Bisons
(Zubr):
http://www.zubr-belarus.com/english/index.php?show=stan_z
J. Patrick Fischer, 10 September 2001
Again new flags in German TV news (ARD and ZDF) from Belarus.
I saw the Bison flag with red Bison on white background and white
Bison on black background, without stripes on the side. I checked
the propotions now. The Bison-flags seem to have 2:3.
J. Patrick Fischer, 10 September 2001
by Zach Harden, 3 November 2001
by Zach Harden, 3 November 2001
Since 1995, an union of Russia and Belarus (somethimes
including other slavic and/or ex-soviet countries) has been
repeatedly proposed by belarussian president Lukashenka, and was
recieved whith moderate enthusiasm by the russian presidency and
by the successive cabinets. The vexillological implications of
the projected union remain unknown.
Antonio Martins , 29 October 1999
Two flags reported to be used/proposed by the RU-BY
Union. The flag drawings were made by me, but the images
were made from Victor Lomanstov's website. Both flags have
a red background, two yellow/gold stars (shwoing the union), and
both are 1:2 ratio. The ideas came from the Soviet flag,
and which both countries used to belong to from the start.
The only difference is the type of stars used, and the placement
of them. The first one is where the stars are side-by-side,
and are colored in full. The second one is where one star
is above the other, and the Soviet star design was used.
Zach Harden, 3 November 2001
From their "constitution":
"Article 1 - The Community of Russia and Belarus shall be
transformed into a Union with the terms of reference stemming
from its Charter.
Each of the member countries of the Union shall retain its state
sovereignty, independence, territorial integrity, Constitution,
national flag, coat of arms and other accoutrements of
statehood."
Even though the central government will have flags to represent
the Union, each country belonging to the union can keep their
current symbols, which most are USSR related (Belarus flag, CoA,
anthem; Russian anthem). The Russian/Soviet anthem will be
used for the Union anthem, and no CoA is in the works as of this
time. At the first meeting of the Union Council, Alexander
Lukashenko sang the anthem, everyone joined in, and selected the
tune of the USSR/Russia anthem. New words will be set in
place soon.
Zach Harden, 26 November 2001