Banner o Roushie

The banner o Roushie is a tricolour banner o three equal horizontal fields, white on the tap, blue in the middle an reid on the bottom. The banner wis first uised as an ensign for Roushie merchant an war ships an ae became offeecial in 1896. The banner continued tae be uised bi the Roushie Proveesional Government even efter the Tsar wis toppled in the February Revolution an wis no replaced till the October Revolution which establisht a Bolshevik government. Frae that time period, a red banner chairged wi communist seembols wis favoured ower the tricolour. It wis no till the collapse o the Soviet Union in 1991 that the tricolour wis brocht back as the offeecial banner o the new Roushie Federation. The modren era banner unnerwent a slicht chynge in 1993 an haes been offeecial syne 2000.