Sergei Mikhailovich Mironov

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Sergei Mironov in 2014
Signature of Sergei Mironov
Sergei Mironov with Russian President Dmitry Medvedev (2008)

Sergei Michailowitsch Mironow ( Russian Сергей Михайлович Миронов ; born  February 14, 1953 in Pushkin , Leningrad Oblast , now St. Petersburg ) is a Russian politician . He is chairman of the Just Russia party . From December 2001 to May 2011 he was chairman of the Russian Federation Council . Since June 14, 2011 he has been chairman of the Duma faction of “Just Russia”.

life and career

Mironov began his professional career with military service in the Red Army as a paratrooper , which he did from 1971 to 1973. He then studied at the Leningrad Mining University and graduated in 1980. During his studies and in the years after, he worked as a geophysicist in the Soviet Union and later also in Mongolia . In the early 1990s he began to be politically active and finally ran successfully in 1994 as a member of the St. Petersburg City Parliament, whose first deputy chairman he was elected in April 1995. After chairman Yuri Kravtsov was ousted by the city parliament in 1998, Mironov took over his office provisionally from April to December. In the same year he was re-elected as a member of parliament for a second term and received the best result in the city with around 70 percent of the vote. In 2000 Mironov was again deputy chairman of the city parliament. Since 2001 he has represented the legislature of Saint Petersburg as a senator in the Russian Federation Council. On December 5 of the same year he was elected chairman by the Federation Council, succeeding the previous chairman Yegor Strojew . On January 29, 2003, he was re-elected as chairman of the Federation Council.

In the Russian parliamentary elections in 2003 , Mironov was active in the service of the Party of Life , which had been founded a year earlier on the occasion of these elections and of which he was chairman from 2003 to 2006. In 2004 he ran as a candidate in the presidential election without seeing himself as a challenger to Putin ; he even went so far as to publicly express his support for Putin. Logically, he came last with 0.75 percent of the votes (524,324 votes in absolute terms). After the Party of Life merged with the Pensioners' Party and the Rodina Party in 2006, he also took over the chairmanship of the Just Russia party, which was created on October 28, 2006 . On March 30, 2007, Mironov was re-elected chairman of the Federation Council, unanimously with one abstention.

On April 16, 2011, Sergei Mironov suspended his party chairmanship. Nikolai Levitschew was elected as the new party chairman with 296 to 17 votes . Since October 27, 2013 Mironov has held the office of party chairman again.

On May 18, 2011, Sergei Mironov was relieved of his official duties as Chairman of the Russian Federation Council at the suggestion of the United Russia party . It is believed that Mironov's increasing distancing from the United Russia party was the trigger for his dismissal. His successor in this office was Valentina Matviyenko .

On June 8, 2011, Sergei Mironov entered the Duma . A week later he took over the chairmanship of the “Just Russia” party.

In December 2011, Mironov was nominated by his party as a candidate in the 2012 Russian presidential election. On December 22, 2011, the Central Election Commission registered his candidacy. In the presidential elections on March 4, 2012, Mironov received only 3.85 percent of the vote and again landed in last place.

In April 2014, the US government and the EU put Mironov on a sanctions list as a result of the Ukraine crisis , which bans Mironov from entering the United States and EU member states.

Private

Sergei Mironov is married for the fourth time. His third wife, Irina Mironova, from whom he separated in mid-2013, used to work as an intern in his office. Because of her he left his second wife, Lyubov Ivanovna. On November 1, 2013, Sergei Mironov married the Saint Petersburg journalist Olga Radijewskaja (* 1984). Mironov is of Russian Orthodox religion.

Web links

Commons : Sergei Mironov  - collection of pictures, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ http://www.lenpravda.ru/digest/federal/259616.html
  2. ↑ http://kp.ru/daily/25670/831165/
  3. ↑ rg.ru
  4. ↑ BBC
  5. ^ Zeit.de: EU-Russia Sanctions: List, Sergej Mironow
  6. ↑ Rol.ru
  7. ↑ Top.rbc.ru
  8. ↑ ves.lv
  9. ↑ Sergey-Mironov, LiveJournal
personal data
SURNAME Mironow, Sergei Michailowitsch
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Сергей Михайлович Миронов
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Russian politician and parliamentarian
DATE OF BIRTH February 14, 1953
PLACE OF BIRTH Pushkin