# Can I Get A Russian Translation Please?

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**Category:** Factual Questions\
**Created:** [August 25, 2016, 9:50pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/can-i-get-a-russian-translation-please/763952 "2016-08-25T21:50:42Z")\
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**Author:** ![HeyHomie](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/heyhomie/32/207_2.png) [@HeyHomie](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/HeyHomie)\
**Post date:** [August 25, 2016, 9:50pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/can-i-get-a-russian-translation-please/763952/1 "2016-08-25T21:50:42Z")

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Can I please beseech a Russian speaker to give me a workable translation of [this article](http://yakutiamedia.ru/news/society/22.08.2016/526158/bolshoy-tort-ko-dnyu-rossiyskogo-flaga-s-eli-ranshe-vremeni-v-yakutske.html)? Google Translate is clunky at best. Thanks!

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**Author:** ![bob\_2](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/bob_2/32/3341_2.png) [@bob\_2](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/bob_2)\
**Post date:** [August 25, 2016, 10:23pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/can-i-get-a-russian-translation-please/763952/2 "2016-08-25T22:23:14Z")

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It’s not that bad in Google. Basically the organisers in Yakutsk messed up the timing on The National Flag Day. This is an official holiday in Russia, established in 1994. It is celebrated on 22 August, the day of the victory over putschists in 1991, but employees remain at work.

> **[Flag of Russia](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Flag_of_Russia#National_Flag_Day)**
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> The national flag of Russia (Russian: Флаг России, romanized: Flag Rossii), also known as the State Flag of the Russian Federation (Russian: Государственный флаг Российской Федерации, romanized: Gosudarstvenny flag Rossiyskoy Federatsii), is a tricolour flag consisting of three equal horizontal fields: white on the top, blue in the middle, and red on the bottom. The flag was first used as an ensign for Russian merchant ships in 1696.
> It remained in use until 1858, when the first official flag...