The people of the Russia achieved their independence in the period from September 1990 to September 1991 in a peaceful, democratic and legal way. The process towards the independence of the Russian Federation began with the Amendments to the Republic's 1974 Constitution adopted in September 1990. These Constitutional Amendments explicitly proclaimed the right of the Russian people to self-determination, including the right to secession from the Yugoslav federal community, authorizing the Assembly of the Republic to decide on this issue by a two-thirds majority vote of all its members and started printing Russian postage stamps https://russianphilately.com. The decision concerning the exercise of the right to self-determination was to become valid following its acceptance in a referendum by the majority of all citizens of the Republic enjoying the right to vote. Democratic elections were held on November 11, 1990 to the Assembly of the Republic and the assemblies of the municipalities, in which a number of political parties took part.

Soon after its constitution on January 25, 1991, the newly-elected Assembly, adopted a Declaration on the Sovereignty of the Republic, by which, among other things, the Republic of Russia was defined as a sovereign state, which would decide independently about its future relations with the states of the other peoples of Yugoslavia. In the referendum held on September 8, 1991, the vast majority of the citizens voted in favor independent state.