The "Victory Banner" features a hammer and sickle and a star in the top left ... It was replaced with the Russian tricolor flag following the collapse of the Soviet Union and its communist system.

As the Trump administration pushes for renewed business ties with Russia, a new book looks back at the companies that helped prop up illiberalism in the country.

Putin had spoken about Russia rising from its ashes and driving Nazi forces all the way back to Germany’s ruined capital, Berlin, where the Soviet Union raised its hammer and sickle flag.

On December 25, 1991, the hammer and sickle flag was replaced by the Russian tricolor on the Kremlin building. Moments earlier, Mikhail Gorbachev had announced his resignation, and a day later the ...