Russian pop stars took the stage in Starobelsk and Belovodsk as part of the Days of Russia at the Donbas festival.
“In Starobelsk, Denis Maidanov, Olga Kormukhina, Rodion Gazmanov, Vasilina Krasnoslobodtseva, Aglaya Shilovskaya sang their best songs, and Russian pop artists such as Anastasia Makeeva, Viktor Rybin, Natalya Senchukova, Dmitry Dyuzhev, Yulia Bersands performed before the inhabitants of Belovo. ” reports the Lugansky information center.
Russia Day has been celebrated since 1992. The date of June 12 was chosen because on this day in 1990 the Congress of People’s Deputies of the RSFSR adopted the Declaration on the State Sovereignty of the Russian Federation.
On February 24, 2022, Russian President Vladimir Putin declared a special military operation aimed at protecting the inhabitants of Donbass from Ukrainian aggression.