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Anatoly Korolev and Dmitry Kosyrev, RIA Novosti commentators
emerged about a thousand years ago as a state with two metropolitan cities - Kiev in the south and Novgorod in the north. Neither the Tatar invasion, nor wars with Turkey and Poland, nor the Napoleonic and two world wars, let alone the stormy revolutions, severed the close alliance of two Slavic nations. No wonder many Russians view June 12, 1990, which let them formally separate, as a fatal day.There were huge losses in the east, too, with the independence of Kazakhstan, Uzbekistan, Turkmenistan and Kyrgyzstan, which Russia conquered in the 18th and 19th centuries.
Independence Days are joyously celebrated in former colonies - the United States, Canada, India and many African countries. Former empires - Britain, France and Spain - have no such holiday, and that is logical.
Russia never was a colony, so its Independence Day is nonsensical.
There are many more new symbols, starting with the revived tricolour. Its red, blue and white stand for the
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