Russia Day: The exhibition “From perestroika – to New Russia” in Stavropol

June 11, 2013 in the G. N. Prozritelev and G. K. Prave Stavropol State Museum-Reserve was held the presentation of the exhibition “From the perestroika – to New Russia”, dedicated to the Day of Russia.

June 12, 1990 at the I Congress of People’s Deputies of the RSFSR was adopted the “Declaration of State Sovereignty of the RSFSR”.

In 1994 by the Decree of the President of Russia Boris Yeltsin that day gets the status of the national holiday as the Day of the Declaration of State Sovereignty. On February 1, 2002, he called it the Day of Russia.

The exhibition features posters, documents, photographs reflecting the most important events in political, social and economic life of the country since the mid-1980s to the late 1990s. In the first place - is perestroika, which caused the destruction of the Soviet system, the election of the first president of Russia (12 June 1991), held as part of the perestroika reforms since the beginning of 1992 - market reforms and privatization and the adoption of a new constitution of Russia and elections in to the Russia’s new parliament in 1993. Campaigns for the Russian parliament in 1995 and 1999 complete the picture of the diversity of political movements, parties and demonstrate the design of the most influential political forces of the country to the beginning of the XXI century.

Local printed materials reflect the characteristics of the political and socio-economic transformation of the transition period in the Stavropol region.