On June 12, 1990, the Congress of People's Deputies of the RSFSR adopted a declaration of state sovereignty of Russia. And on June 12, 1991, popular direct elections of the President of Russia were held, at which Boris Yeltsin won. In 1994, this day was declared a public holiday, and in 1998, Yeltsin proposed calling him “Russia's Day” in his appeal to compatriots. Here, in short, and the whole history of the holiday. Who is now emasculated.