Russia Day is a holiday of national unity celebrated on June 12.  On this day in 1990, Russian Parliament proclaimed it’s sovereignty and the first President of Russia (Boris Yeltsin) was elected on June 12, 1990.

The holiday was officially established in 1994 and initially named “Day of the adoption of the declaration of sovereignty of the Russian Federation”.  On February 1, 2002, it was officially renamed “Russia Day”.