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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]);
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↑ 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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Decorative patterns on the Flag of Belarus that resembles ruchnik
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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
12:55, 13 April 2012	900 × 450 (12 KB)	Ang15	The reference to the amendment to the standard - http://www.tnpa.by/ViewFileText.php?UrlRid=52178&UrlOnd=%D1%D2%C1%20911-2008; to learn more about color see the talk page at URL http://ru.wikipedia.org/wiki/Обсуждение:Флаг_Беларуси
23:49, 12 April 2012	900 × 450 (12 KB)	Fry1989	ornament
15:22, 12 April 2012	900 × 450 (12 KB)	Zscout370	Ornament from http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Flag_of_Belarus_2012.svg colors from this file
19:17, 10 April 2012	900 × 450 (12 KB)	Zscout370	from http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Flag_of_Belarus_2012.svg (updated ornament but the colors from the previous version)
19:11, 10 April 2012	900 × 450 (12 KB)	Zscout370
07:40, 27 December 2010	900 × 450 (10 KB)	Zscout370	I have a copy of СТБ 911-2008 so we are able to get the official colors now.
08:44, 11 May 2010	1,200 × 600 (10 KB)	Zscout370	There is a major line going through the ornament and it bothers me. Went with the easy code on the stripes/bars, but kept the previous combined ornament (while removing several duplicate/not needed points).
01:33, 25 February 2010	1,200 × 600 (1 KB)	Joey-das-WBF	fixed markup errors: IDs cannot start with a number. You were lucky rsvg and Firefox are too lenient on code validity.
06:34, 15 September 2009	1,200 × 600 (1 KB)	Permjak	Compression of a code. The ornament is taken from a site [http://www.vexilla-mundi.com/belarus_flag.html Vexilla-mundi].
21:40, 11 January 2008	600 × 300 (8 KB)	Pianist	I have corrected colors and have reduced the size of the file.