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Law (Zakon) of RSFSR from 1st of November, 1991, proclaimed colours and outlook of our flag as follows:
State flag of Russia is a rectangular »« with three equal-size horizontal bands: the upper one is white (белый), the middle one — azure (лазоревый), and the lower one is scarlet (алый). Width/length relation equals 1/2.Kirill Marchuk, 04 May 2001
Strange… I don’t know about this Law. The National flag of
Russia was approved with Decision of 22,
August, 1991 and hoisted upon
building of Government. Law on flag (and changing of Constitution) was
adopted on 21, April, 1992.
Victor Lomantsov, 04 May 2001
The right official ratio is 2:3. It was been changed
by Presidential decree No 2126 (11 december 1993). In
1991 when Russian tricolor was officially adopted one had
1:2 ratio.
Michael Simakov, 25 Jan 1999, and
Victor Lomantsov, 10 Nov 1999
The flag of the Russian Federation was
changed from 1:2 to 2:3 in late 1993. But
that raises another question, namely: Why
were the proportions of the Russian flag
changed?
Mark Sensen, 18 Jan 2000
Ratio was changed in 1993 from 1:2 to 2:3 because russian flag before
1917 always was 2:3. It is a “historical” ratio. Only
soviet flags had ratio 1:2.
Victor Lomantsov, 07 May 2000
Perhaps to return to the pre-soviet ratio and/or negate
the 1:2 ratio, typical of soviet flags… And why wasn’t it
made 2:3 right in 1991? Because the soviet heritage was either
consciously conserved (as in "new russia = soviet ratio +
Tsarist colors"…), or nobody noticed/care about it then…
António Martins, 20 Jan 2000
In official text (1991-1993): white-azure-scarlet really the flag was,
is and shall be white-blue-red. Authors of flag-decision of 1991 were not
vexillologists. They didn’t knew vexillological terminology. They
considered that "white", "blue" and "red" are very
“ordinary” words and they decided to use more
“refined” words: "azure" and "scarlet". (For
example, in heraldry, “ordinary” words are not used. Instead
heraldists say "gules", "azure", "vert" etc instead
of "red", "blue" and "green"…)
In 1993 this terminological vagueness was corrected.
Victor Lomantsov, 02 May 2000
This means that real flags had no difference in color shade, only the
words used on the law were different. The 1991-1993 shade of blue
was neither darker nor lighter.
António Martins, 06 May 2000