The Jewish Autonomous Oblast, or region, was designated by Stalinist Soviet authorities in 1934 as a “Jewish socialist republic. “This flag does not contradict the current law of the Russian Federation and so there is no basis to cancel or change it.” “Obviously, the above described flag, the flag of the Jewish Autonomous Region, whose foundation is a white cloth, has nothing to do with that,” he wrote. “Regarding the similarity of this flag with the symbol of the gay movement, we explain that not every rainbow image is linked to sexual orientation,” Georgy Vilinbakhov, a Kremlin advisor, wrote in a letter published by local website. June is LGBT pride month in the United States, so you may be seeing rainbows everywhere. The original design had eight, not six colors, each with its own meaning. It immediately became a symbol of LGBT pride.
The first LGBT rainbow flag was designed by Gilbert Baker in 1978. It was under review for its possible violation of Russia’s ban on LGBT propaganda. The rainbow is the most widely recognized LGBT symbol in the world. The flag, designed in 1996 for the Birobidzhan region, boasts colorful stripes on a white background. The Kremlin’s self-styled flag experts have declared that the flag of Russia’s Jewish Autonomous Region -which bears an uncanny resemblance to the rainbow gay pride symbol - is in fact 100% kosher, Buzzfeed World reported.
