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Russia Day is a holiday of national unity celebrated on June 12. On this day, in 1990, Russian parliament formally declared its sovereignty. The holiday was officially established in 1994. Initially it was named “Day of the adoption of the Declaration of Sovereignty of the Russian Federation”, on 1 February 2002 was officially renamed to “Russia Day” (in 1998 Boris Yeltsin offered this name socially). There exist some sources, that say the name of this holiday was “Russia Independence Day”, but it never had such a name in official documents.

• http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Public_holidays_in_Russia