Sergei Mironov

Sanctions In March 2014, 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 Mironov for alleged financial support of pro-Russian armed groups.

Mironov was sanctioned by the United Kingdom government in 2014 in relation to the Russo-Ukrainian War, as well as by Canada under the Special Economic Measures Act (S.C. 1992, c. 17) in relation to the Russian invasion of Ukraine for Grave Breach of International Peace and Security.

Political positions Mironov opposes the legalization of short-barreled firearms in Russia, but, at the moment, admits the presence of such weapons in those who have served in the country's armed forces to have such weapons, thus softening his categorical position on this issue. Mironov himself has six premium short-barreled pistols. He also opposes euthanasia.

He is a supporter of the introduction of the death penalty for pedophilia. He supported calls for the death penalty for those who perpetrated the Crocus City Hall attack.

Project "Do or Go!" On 11 February 2016, Mironov announced the start of an all-Russian campaign to collect 10 million signatures under demands against the prime minister and ministers. Mironov's project provides for the resignation of the government if the following demands of the Russians are not met. Their list is replenished during the action in accordance with the proposals of citizens.

During the first day of the action, over 70,000 signatures were collected, by August 2016 - about 5 million. The first signature under the requirements within the framework of the project "Do or Go!" was put by himself Mironov.

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.

Environmental views Mironov is a supporter of the experimental method of TNVR (Trap–neuter–vaccinate–return), legalizing the free presence of stray dogs in the urban environment. In November 2018, he initiated, together with deputy Vladimir Burmatov, a bill allowing the return of these animals to the streets of cities after sterilization. By decision of the Supreme Court of the Russian Federation in January 2017, the TNVR method was banned in the Rostov Oblast as not complying with the current legislation in the field of ensuring sanitary and epidemiological well-being of the population and prevention of contagious diseases, and in October 2018, the City Court of Saint Petersburg banned TNVR in this subject of the federation as well. The explanatory note to the bill states the need not to limit the regions in their authority to treat these animals, suggesting that they should be guided by humane considerations and not depend on the position of courts and veterinarians on this issue.

In July 2018, 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".

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. At the same time, sterilized dogs will still have aggression towards humans and other animals, they will continue to fight for food and territory, and they will still be potentially dangerous.

For many years, he has denied the anthropogenic nature of ozone holes and global climate change, and believes that the signing of international climate agreements, in particular the "Kyoto Protocol" and the "Paris Agreement", serves only the economic interests of individual companies and countries.

Personal life

His third wife Irina Yurievna Mironova is an officer apparatus to the Interparliamentary Assembly of the CIS. They have a son and a daughter.

An investigation by BBC News found that in 2022 Mironov and his wife had adopted a 10 months old girl Marharyta Prokopenko that was abducted from Ukraine's town of Kherson by Inna Varlamova during Russian occupation to Moscow under the pretext of "medical examination". In Moscow, her birth certificate was falsified, changing her name to Maryna Mironova and birthplace to Russia.

In 2008, President Vladimir Putin awarded Mironov the Order "For Merit to the Fatherland", 3rd degree.

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

Wealth According to The Insider in a report published in January 2022, Mironov's family owns an elite apartment in Moscow worth 350 million rubles, which is almost 70 times more than the politician's officially declared annual income. The apartment has an area of 235 square meters and is located in the residential complex "Park Palace" on Prechistenskaya embankment. Mironov's ex-wife Olga and their minor son live in it, and since 2015 its official owner has been Olga's brother, who could not buy such expensive real estate with his own money, since the annual revenue of his business is less than 14 million rubles. He was even quoted as declaring, "We all want Vladimir Putin to be the next president."

Mironov's campaign slogan was "Justice and Responsibility".

2012 presidential campaign

Running in 2012 as the A Just Russia nominee, Mironov called for a return to a socialist model of government.

While he stated that he predicted a Putin victory, he declared that he would support Gennady Zyuganov in a hypothetical runoff against Putin.