12 June 2020
On 12th June the Russian Federation celebrates the Day of Russia - a national holiday. On this significant day in 1990, the Declaration on the State Sovereignty of Russia was adopted. And a year later, on the same day, for the first time in the history of their homeland, the Russians became participants in the public elections of the Head of State, when the first President of Russia - Boris Yeltsin was elected. These significant events that occurred on 12th June 1991, became the reason for the establishment of the Day of Russia.