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Why is the Russian flag banned but not the Chinese and North Korean flags?

then why does fide do it?
Well it's like there's a lot of hate against it that's why they did It.

All 3 countries are currently committing crimes against humanity, so I feel it's kinda hypocritical to ban one's flag while not doing the same for the others.
the same could be said for the US, but thats not banned either

It isn't ( just ) about long-standing human rights violations, it's about starting an illegal war of aggression against another country.

Hello C_P : My CC team had a really cool young Russian I was training as an administrator. Lost him with the Russia ban. Putin went from being the 10 most admire Man in the World list to mud. His Judo disowned him.
All 3 countries are currently committing crimes against humanity, so I feel it's kinda hypocritical to ban one's flag while not doing the same for the others.