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According to Vexillologie 116
[vex], this is the flag of Balkar National
Council and of the self-proclaimed Balkar Republic.
Jan Zrzavy, 27 Jun 2001
This national flag was adopted by 3rd session of 1st Congress of Balkarian people on 19, June, 1993. Author of the flag was I. Zhankushiev. Symbols:
According to Vexillologie 116
[vex], the blue flag with two white stripes,
white circle, and white Elbrus Mt. belongs to the Karachay-Balkar organization
Tjore (= Home?).
Jan Zrzavy, 27 Jun 2001
This flag, in light blue, is listed under number 107 at the chart
Flags of Aspirant Peoples [eba94]
as: «Malkar Respublika (Balkarians) - North Caucasus, Russia».
Ivan Sache, 15 Sep 1999
I wander where this design comes from. Like many other post-soviet russian
flags, it shows clear reminiscences of the RSFSR flag.
The spelling "Волкария"
("Volkariâ")
is quite weird, as the first letter should really be a cyrillic "b", not a
latin one. Balkars, by the way, call themselves "Malkar", so this is
not a local language issue. The second letter should also be something else:
an "a" — I smell super-correction syndrome (with an "o" it would still sound
as "a" in normative Russian pronunciation). All this may imply well-meaning
but not very astute “research” made by a non-russian.
António Martins, 18 Jan 2003
This flag is a mistification. It never existed.
You can throw out it to garbage basket.
Victor Lomantsov, 19 Jan 2003