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MOSCOW. (RIA Novosti political commentator...
only its upper part was seen well) with a radiating sun rising above it. Above the Earth there was a symbol of the proletarian and peasant expansion, a sickle and hammer under a five-pointed star of mystic might. This symbolized the center of an expanding universe.This emblem of the Communist state claimed power over the entire world. But history decided otherwise, and the Soviet empire collapsed.
The current emblem was born in the pangs of new times.
At first the previous emblem was restored but deprived of all crowns and symbols of power, including the scepter and the orb. Its two beaks were closed. Critics immediately dubbed the eagle "a shabby hen" and soon painter Yevgeny Ukhnalev reinstated almost all of the previous attributes.
Russia's new emblem was officially adopted in December 2000. Today this emblem, the symbol of a democratic federal republic, looks ironically like that of a monarchy, with all the attributes of tsarist power
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