15 Facts About Sergey Mironov

Sergey Mironov served as Chairman of the Federation Council, the upper house of the Russian parliament, from 2001 to 2011.

In December 2001, Sergey Mironov was elected to be a Speaker of the Federation Council.

In late 2022, Russian opposition politician Nikita Yuferev accused Sergey Mironov of violating Russia's 2022 war censorship laws.

In March 2014, Sergey Mironov was included in list of Russian government sanctioned individuals because of their direct or alleged indirect involvement in the annexation of Crimea by the Russian Federation.

On 25 July 2014, amidst the war in Donbas, the Ukrainian Interior Ministry launched criminal proceedings against Sergey Mironov for alleged financial support of pro-Russian armed groups.

On 11 February 2016, Sergey Mironov announced the start of an all-Russian campaign to collect 10 million signatures under demands against the prime minister and ministers.

Sergey Mironov's project provides for the resignation of the government if the following demands of the Russians are not met.

Sergey Mironov's project was preceded by a successful action to collect a million signatures against payments for capital repairs until the state fulfilled its obligations to citizens.

In July 2018, Sergey Mironov had already proposed a similar bill, according to which "all stray animals that have been sterilized and vaccinated should be released in the same place from which they were taken by specialists".

Sergey Mironov's initiative was criticized by cynologists, the head of the shelter "Four with a Tail" Diana Gordeeva noted that any dog is vaccinated against rabies once a year, and every stray dog will have to be searched for in industrial zones and heating mains, caught and vaccinated again, which is difficult in practice.

Sergey Mironov's third wife Irina Yurievna Mironova is an officer apparatus to the Interparliamentary Assembly of the CIS.

In 2011, after an initiative of United Russia in the Legislative Assembly of Saint Petersburg, Sergey Mironov was recalled from the Federation Council.

Sergey Mironov ran for president in the 2004 presidential election as the nominee of the Russian Party of Life.

Sergey Mironov's candidacy was seen largely as a ploy to lend credence to the contest, as he was widely known to be a strong supporter of Vladimir Putin.

Sergey Mironov was nominated by his party on 10 December 2011.