Sergey Mironov
Sergei Mikhailovich Mironov (Russian: Сергей Михайлович Миронов; born February 14, 1953 in Pushkin, Leningrad Oblast, today St. Petersburg ) is a Russian politician. He is chairman of the Just Russia party (since April 16, 2011 at rest ). From December 2001 to May 2011 he was Chairman of Russia's Federation Council. Since 14 June 2011, he is chairman of the Duma faction of "Fair Russia".
Life and career
Mironov began his professional career with the military service in the Red Army as a paratrooper, he made from 1971 to 1973. He then studied at the Leningrad Mining College and graduated in 1980. During his studies, and in the years that followed, he worked as a geophysicist in the Soviet Union and later also in Mongolia. In the early 1990s he began to become politically active and eventually ran successfully in 1994 as a Member of the St. Petersburg city council, whose first vice-chairman, he was elected in April 1995. After the dismissal of the chairman Yuri Kravtsov by the city council in 1998 Mironov took over his office as acting from April to December. In the same year he was again confirmed as a deputy for a second term and was accounting for around 70 percent of the vote, the best result citywide. 2000 Mironov was again deputy chairman of the city council. He has represented since 2001 Legeslative of St. Petersburg as a senator in the Russian Federation. On 5 December the same year he was elected by the Federation Council as its Chairman and thus succeeds the previous Chairman Yegor Stroyev. On 29 January 2003 he was confirmed when re- election of the Federation Council Chairman in this office.
In the Russian parliamentary elections in 2003 Mironov was active in the service of a year earlier founded on the occasion of the elections the party of life, which he chaired from 2003 to 2006. In 2004 he stood as a candidate in the presidential election, without regard themselves as Putin's challenger; he even went so far, Putin publicly express his support. Consequently, he finished with 0.75 percent of the vote ( 524,324 votes absolute) the last place. After the merger, the party of a lifetime with the Pensioners' Party and the Rodina party in 2006 he also took over the presidency of this way on 28 October 2006 the newly created party Fair Russia. March 30, 2007 Mironov was reconfirmed as chairman of the Federation Council, and indeed unanimously, with one abstention.
On April 16, 2011 Sergei Mironov rested his party chairmanship. As the new party leader was elected with votes 296:17 Nikolai Lewitschew.
18 May 2011 Sergei Mironov stuff on a proposal from the United Russia party was relieved of his duties as Chairman of the Russian Federation Council. It is believed that Mironov's increasing alienation of the party " United Russia " triggers for his dismissal was. His successor in that office was Valentina Matviyenko.
On 8 June 2011 Sergei Mironov entered the Duma. A week later, he became the parliamentary leader of the party " Fair Russia".
In December 2011, Mironov was nominated by his party as a candidate in the Russian presidential elections in 2012. On 22 December 2011, the Central Election Commission has registered his candidacy. In the presidential elections on March 4, 2012 Mironov drove a disappointing result. He got only 3.85 percent of the vote and ended up in last place.
Private
Sergei Mironov is married in fourth marriage. His third wife Irina Mironova, from whom he separated in mid-2013, used to work as an intern in his office. Because of them, he has his second wife, Lyubov Ivanovna leave. On November 1, 2013 married Sergei Mironov, the St. Petersburg journalist Olga Radijewskaja (* 1984). Mironov is Russian Orthodox religion.