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===1991–present: Russian Federation===

During the [[dissolution of the Soviet Union]], after the [[1991 August Coup]], the Russian SFSR adopted a new flag design similar to the pre-revolutionary tricolour that had been abolished in 1917. The ratio of the new flag was 1:2, and the flag colours consisted of [[white]] on the top, [[blue]] in the middle, and [[red]] on the bottom. The flag design remained the same until 1993, when the original Russian tricolour was fully restored as the current flag after the [[1993 Russian constitutional crisis]].{{Citation needed|date=April 2022}} Following the [[1991 Soviet coup d'etat attempt|events of the attempted coup in Moscow]], the supreme soviet of the Russian SFSR declared, by resolution dated 22 August 1991,<ref>per [http://pravo.gov.ru/proxy/ips/?docbody=&nd=102012339 Resolution No. 1627/1-I of the Supreme Soviet of the RSFSR of 22 August 1991]</ref> that the old imperial tricolour flag serve as the national flag of the state. The constitution was subsequently amended by Law No. 1827-1 1 November 1991.<ref>per [http://pravo.gov.ru/proxy/ips/?docbody=&nd=102012917 Law No. 1827-1 of the RSFSR of 1 November 1991]</ref> At the disintegration of the USSR on 25 December 1991, the Soviet flag was lowered from Kremlin and then replaced by the tricolor flag.