The flags derived from the state flag of Republic of Moldova

The quality of the national flag implies several categories of flags: the civil flag, the state flag, the war flag, the civil ensign, the state ensign, the naval ensign, the national colors, the battle standard (the military colors), the presidential standard, the standard of the speaker of the Parliament, the standard of the Prime Minister, the standard of the Ministry of Defence and other types. Most of these flags have a historical and semantic interdependence. After two decades of independence of the Republic of Moldova the only official flag was the State flag, approved on April 27, 1990. Also the military colors were crystallized in a single form, but this unity of form was not fixed by law. On September 17, 2010, the Moldovan Parliament adopted a new law on State Flag, which solved some of the historical problems of the national vexillology. The author reviews and explains the new regulations and the new vexilological symbols.