On June 12, our country celebrates a public holiday - Russia Day, formerly known as Independence Day or the Day of the adoption of the Declaration of State Sovereignty.
How did the history of the Day of Russia begin, who became its founder and when? In order to get answers to these questions, you just need to remember the history of our country and return to the beginning of the nineties, when this holiday was started.
June 12, 1990 became a kind of starting point for the new Russia. It was then that the first Congress of People's Deputies of the RSFSR adopted the "Declaration on State Sovereignty of the RSFSR", which contained the main points of state sovereignty. According to this document, the RSFSR could enjoy full power when solving all the main issues concerning both the state and public life of the country. Also, the Declaration proclaimed the supremacy of the main state document - the Constitution of Russia and Russian laws. The legal possibilities of citizens, political parties, constituent entities of the Federation are documented to be equal for all. The principle of separation of powers into legislative, executive and judicial powers has been approved.
On the same day, a year later, on June 12, 1991, the first nationwide direct open presidential elections in the history of the state took place in Russia, the winner of which was Boris Nikolayevich Yeltsin. It was during his leadership of the country, in 1992, that June 12 began to be considered a holiday. And in 1994 this date was declared "red", that is, a non-working day.
At first, the holiday was called the Day of the adoption of the Declaration of State Sovereignty. True, such a name did not take root in everyday life. People called it simply - Independence Day. Perhaps that is why in 1998 President Yeltsin, addressing his compatriots on central television, announced a new name for the existing holiday. From now on, it was to be called the Day of Russia.
But its official name was determined only on February 1, 2002. With the entry into force of the provisions of the new Labor Code, June 12 is fixed as a public holiday - Day of Russia.
