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This work is not an object of copyright according to the Law of the Belarus No. 370-XIII of May 16, 1996 on Copyright and Neighbouring Rights.

Article 8. Works that are not Objects of Copyright

Shall not be objects of copyright:
- formal documents (laws, judgements, other texts of legal, administrative and judicial nature), and also their official translations;
- state symbols and signs (flag, coat of arms, anthem, awards, banknotes and other signs^[1]);
- works of folk arts, authors of which are not known.
Copyright does not cover ideas, processes, systems, methods of operation, concepts, principles, discoveries or simply information as such, even if they are expressed, reflected, explained or embodied in the work.

Full text of the Law: in Russian, in English.

↑ Postage stamps are state signs according to the Article 1 of the Law of the Republic of Belarus No. 258-З of December 15, 2003 on Mail Service (ru) почтовая марка – государственный знак почтовой оплаты, отпечатанный на бумаге и имеющий художественное изображение, а также надписи «БЕЛАРУСЬ», «BELARUS», год выпуска (арабскими цифрами) и номинальную стоимость (арабскими цифрами). Допускается литерное обозначение номинальной стоимости почтовой марки;

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Other versions

Decorative patterns on the Flag of Belarus that resembles ruchnik
Color shades variant; purpose unknown

Derivative works of this file: Flag of Belarus and Germany.svg:

SVG development

The SVG code is valid.

This flag was created with Inkscape, and then manually edited

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Used colors

red	rendered as `RGB 206 023 032`	Pantone 1795 C
green	rendered as `RGB 000 124 048`	Pantone 355 С
white	rendered as `RGB 255 255 255`

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File history

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Date/Time	Dimensions	User	Comment
10:16, 9 January 2008	600 × 300 (21 KB)	Zscout370	Reduced SVG code to a degree
03:13, 18 January 2007	900 × 450 (54 KB)	Zscout370	Something about the ornament bothered me, so I fixed it in about 2 hours
05:41, 7 March 2006	1,200 × 600 (13 KB)	Zscout370	http://www.maraphon.com/index.php?section=production&razdel=flags says the ornament is 1/12th of the width of the flag.
01:58, 24 February 2006	868 × 434 (13 KB)	Zscout370	The compressed code was messing up the flag image, so I made the flag more correct. I also changed the colors to what we are using on on the BY coat of arms image. While it is good to have Pantone shades, the ones that were used show the flag in a very, v
23:22, 17 February 2006	868 × 434 (8 KB)	Vzb83~commonswiki	using Pantone 1795C for red and 370C for green (see http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Flag_of_Belarus), conversion in Photoshop
16:44, 17 December 2005	868 × 434 (8 KB)	Zscout370	I fixed the hoist area.
06:52, 14 September 2005	868 × 434 (9 KB)	Gmaxwell	Optimize SVG of Zscout's version: remove hacks, fix display bugs, reduce size, and name objects.
05:17, 14 September 2005	868 × 434 (42 KB)	Zscout370
23:17, 12 September 2005	710 × 370 (57 KB)	Gmaxwell	remove black border
21:38, 12 September 2005	710 × 370 (57 KB)	Gmaxwell	New rendition of Belarus flag, created in Inkscape. {{GFDL-1.2}}