Sergey Mikhailovich Mironov (14 February 1953-) was a Russian politician and A Just Russia leader who served as Senator from St. Petersburg from 2001 to 2011 and a deputy of the State Duma in 2011.
Biography[]
Sergey Mikhailovich Mironov was born in Pushkin, Russian SFSR, Soviet Union in 1953, and he joined Komsomol in 1967. He served in the Soviet Army airborne troops during the 1970s and became a geophysicist, and he was elected to the St. Petersburg Legislative Assembly in 1994. He founded the liberal nationalist Russian Party of Life in 2002 and ran for President in 2004, although he acknowledged that everyone wanted Vladimir Putin to be President, and ultimately polled with less than 1% of the vote. In 2006, he presided over the formation of the social democratic A Just Russia party, and he won 3.86% of the vote at the March 2012 presidential election. He also served as a Senator from 2001 to 2011 and a deputy from 2011, and he was sanctioned by the United States in 2014 after he was accused of providing financial support to the eastern Ukrainian separatists during the Donbass War.