The Communist Party was banned in Estonia and Lithuania ... After the declaration of independence, democratic lawmakers carry the hitherto banned Ukrainian blue and yellow flag into parliament. At a ...

Every year on 26 June, the Day of the Crimean Tatar Flag is celebrated in Ukraine. This is a blue flag with a yellow ... s repression of the Crimean Tatars and the introduction of the communist regime ...

4 Elections in March 1990 fractured the Communist Party's monopoly on ... in Kyiv. 11 Both Ukrainian and European flags are seen during a pro-independence rally in Kyiv. 12 The historic ballot ...

(c) Inna Sokolovska / Demotix.On 16 December, a Kyiv district administrative court approved a claim by Ukraine’s Ministry of Justice. It sought to ban the country’s Communist Party (KPU).