Participants in a theatrical production of “Streletskaya review” in Tver on June 12
Approximately 2.5 million people in Moscow participated in the festivities and the mass celebrations devoted to Day of Russia. This was reported on the website of the MIA on Monday, June 12.
“Police officers together with representatives of Regardie and voluntary people’s guards to maintain public order and security”, — said the press service.
In Moscow on Monday passed a historic reconstruction of the festival “Times and epochs” and other festive events. On Sakharov Avenue held a rally of the opposition, whose members tried to get him in the end. According to police, the share reached 1.8 thousand people. Ministry of internal Affairs reports about detainees, their exact number is not yet known.
Russia day is celebrated for the fifteenth time. Ten years before that it existed as the Day of adoption of Declaration on state sovereignty of the Russian Federation (in the people — the independence Day). The document on the establishment of the holiday was adopted at the first Congress of people’s deputies in 1990. On 12 June, Russia declared a day off, throughout the country traditionally held mass celebrations.