Coat of arms of Russia

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The coat of arms of Russia is one of the state symbols of the Russian Federation, along with the state flag and the national anthem. The current coat of arms was approved by Decree No. 2050 of the President of the Russian Federation dated on 30 November 1993. On 25 December 2000, President of Russia Vladimir Putin signed the Federal Constitutional Law No. 2 "On the State Coat of Arms of the Russian Federation" which had retained the 1993 version as the state symbol and approved the rules for its use. It derives from the earlier coat of arms of the Russian Empire. Though modified more than once since the reign of Ivan III (1462–1505), the current coat of arms is directly derived from its medieval original, with the double-headed eagle having Byzantine and earlier antecedents. The general tincture corresponds to the fifteenth-century standard.

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