12JUN2018 - Holiday Today - Philippines, Russia
Philippines - Independence Day
Independence Day is a national holiday in the Philippines that commemorates the establishment of the First Philippine Republic in 1889. It is celebrated on June 12.
The Philippine Islands were discovered by Ferdinand Magellan in 1521 and were subsequently colonized by Spain. In 1896, the anti-Spanish revolutionary society Katipunan initiated an armed revolt against the colonial authorities that evolved into the Philippine Revolution.
Bunker Price at Philippines Ports
Russia - Russia Day
Russia Day is the national holiday of the Russian Federation established in 1992. It is celebrated on June 12 to commemorate the Declaration of State Sovereignty of the Russian Soviet Federative Socialist Republic adopted in 1990.
In 1990, the dissolution of the Soviet Union began. All 15 constituent republics of the Soviet Union held their first elections. The elections for the Congress of People's Deputies of the Russian SFSR took place on March 4, 1990. On March 29, Boris Yeltsin became the chairman of the Presidium of the Supreme Soviet.




