What is the official start of World War I? the second Archduke Franz Ferdinand of Austria was shot, world war 1 officialy startes as the alies and the axis began to oppose each other. A bosnian rebel group called the b â¦ lack hand killed him. they tried many ways but eventually jumped onto his car and shot him dead.
Russian Flag Meaning: The design of the Russian flag is based on the flag of the Netherlands. The Russian flag has also inspired the flags of many Slavic nations of Europe, and the colors are often referred to as the pan-Slavic colors.
Russian Federation, as the part of the USSR, got it's own flag, which was, however, very much alike - red with a thin blue vertical stripe, and gold star, hammer and sickle in the upper left corner. Only 76 years later the old three color flag became again the national flag of the Russian Federation. Later, in the XIX-th century, the three stripes on the flag were thought to embody the commonwealth of three Slavonic nations - Russian, Ukranian and Belorussian.