The State Duma Committee for Constitutional Law has rejected a suggestion to change the existing white, blue and red flag of the Russian Federation to the black, yellow and white tricolor used in the Russian Empire of the late 19th century. The bill was rejected on Wednesday almost without discussion, TASS reported. The original motion was drafted in July last year by MP Mikhail Degtyaryov of the... 

Russian Flag on Lomonosov Ridge Arctic Seabed Late last week, Canadian Prime Minister Stephen Harper spent four days in the Arctic. Flying around military bases in the northern provinces of Canada Nunavut, Yukon and Northwest Territories has become a tradition over the years of his stay in power. The current Prime Minister has been in power for six years, and for the sixth time he appeared in the Arctic....