The colour of freedom and joy Grigory Pasko, journalist Если Вы хотите прочитать оригинал данной статьи на русском языке, нажмите сюда. President Medvedev has signed an ukase about the official flag of the FSB. That is, as I understand it, for full and complete happiness, the only thing this agency, which in essence has the entire country and all of its resources under its control, was still missing was its own flag. Now they have one. As a chekist once said to me, rejoicing over the second trial against me, “now even the president is one of us” (this is when Putin had been appointed president in the year 2000). The mass information media reported that previously the FSB had had only an emblem. On it – the Russian double-headed eagle on a background of a shield and sword. About the flag in the Medvedevite ukase is said that in the right part of it will shine the state crest – the double-headed eagle. And in the upper – the Cross of St. Andrew (the apostle Andrew the First-Called – the patron saint of Russia) on a red field. The main body of the new chekist flag – is light-green. In the opinion of the newspaper «Komsomolskaya pravda», “this color in heraldry symbolizes hope, freedom, abundance and joy.”