Declaration of State Sovereignty of the Russian Soviet Federative Socialist Republic

Declaration of State Sovereignty of the Russian SFSR Russian: Декларация о государственном суверенитете РСФСР
First Congress of People's Deputies of Russia passes Declaration of state sovereignty of the Russian SFSR. 12 June 1990.
Created	11 June 1990
Ratified	12 June 1990
Location	Russia, Moscow Kremlin Place where document was signed, not location of copies
Signatories	Chairman of the Supreme Soviet of the RSFSR
Purpose	Declaration of sovereignty

The Declaration on State Sovereignty of the RSFSR (Russian: Декларация о государственном суверенитете РСФСР, Deklaratsiya o gosudarstvennom suverenitete RSFSR) was a political act of the Russian Soviet Federative Socialist Republic, then part of the Soviet Union, which marked the beginning of constitutional reform in Russia. The Declaration was adopted by the First Congress of People's Deputies of the Russian SFSR on June 12, 1990. It proclaimed the sovereignty of the Russian SFSR and the intention to establish a democratic constitutional state within a liberalized Soviet Union. The declaration also states the following:

• Priority of the constitution and laws of the Russian SFSR over legislation of the Soviet Union (sovereignty).
• Equal legal opportunities for all citizens, political parties and public organizations (equality before the law).
• The principle of separation of legislative, executive and judicial powers;
• The need to significantly expand the rights of the autonomous republics, regions, districts, territories of Russia (federalism).

The declaration was signed by then-Chairman of the Supreme Soviet of the RSFSR, Boris Yeltsin.

The day of the declaration, June 12, has been celebrated as a national holiday in the Russian Federation since 1992.^[1]

See also

• Dissolution of the USSR
• Constitution of Russia
• Russian Constitution of 1978
• Russian constitutional crisis of 1993

References

1. Постановление Верховного Совета Российской Федерации от 11 июня 1992 г. N 2981-I «О праздничном дне 12 июня» (in Russian). Retrieved 14 June 2009.

External links

• Declaration of State Sovereignty of the Russian Soviet Federative Socialist Republic (English) Seventeen Moments in Soviet History Archive, Michigan State University.