In 2023, it was a white space. Players from Russia and Belarus have ‘blue flags’ instead of the flag of their country Picture: Nine Sabalenka, a Belarusian who won the Australian Open women ...

Previously, the tournament's neutral flag was white, but since 2024 it has been blue in colour. 'Players from Russia and Belarus are only able to compete in international tennis events as ...

(AP Photo/Pavel Bednyakov) FILE - A woman covers herself with an old Belarusian national flag while shouting at police during ...

Rights groups, activists and independent media in Russia and Belarus endured increased government scrutiny, repressive laws and even were shut down and forced to operate from exile abroad.

which is now used in Belarus along with the white-red-white flag. The Polish eagle wears a crown: it symbolises the sovereignty and unity of the state. After Poland regained independence in 1918, the ...

Several players at Australian Open 2025 have been competing without a national flag, with world No. 2 Aryna Sabalenka included. The Sporting News explains where the reigning consecutive Australian ...

With many of his political opponents either jailed or exiled abroad, Alexander Lukashenko, dubbed “Europe’s last dictator,” is all but certain to add a seventh term.

the 'neutral flag' was a white colour. However, because of a new scoreboard design, the flag has been a blue colour since 2024. "Players from Russia and Belarus are only able to compete in ...

USSR had dissolved into Russia and fourteen independent countries - Armenia, Azerbaijan, Belarus ... its flag - the Confederate flag - which represents slavery and white supremacy - has resurfaced ...

and pushed for abandoning the country’s red-and-white national flag in favor of one similar to what it used as a Soviet republic. Belarus' top security agency kept its fearsome Soviet-era name of the ...