Sergueï Mikhailovitch Mironov [[Cyrillic] СергейМихайловичМиронов] (February 14th 1953, Pouchkine) is a Russian politician , president of the Conseil of the Federation, the Upper House of the Russian Parliament, since December 2001.

Mironov was born with Pouchkine, a town of the suburbs of Leningrad. Its family works for the army. Between 1971 and 1973, it serves in the airborne troops of the Red Army stationed in the Soviet socialist Republics with Lithuania and Azerbaïdjan.

Mironov undertakes studies of Géophysique and leaves graduate the mining Institute Plekhanov of Leningrad in 1980. Starting from 1979, it works as an engineer in geophysics at the institute Rudgeofizika . It expatriate to work in a company of aviation in Mongolia between 1986 and 1991 as a geophysicist.

Mironov launches out in the policy in 1994 and is elected appointed with the Douma of Saint-Pétersbourg. Mironov belongs to the young close relations of the former reforming mayor of Pétersbourg Anatoli Sobtchak. It is invested in the team of countryside for the presidential election of another young reformer close to Sobtchak: Vladimir Poutine. Putin gains the presidential election the March 26th 2000. Mironov becomes vice-president of the Duma of the city the same year.

Mironov is sent to represent the city with special statute of Saint-Pétersbourg to the Council of the Federation in 2001. Each prone (high level administrative entities of the Federation of Russia) sends two representatives to the Council. The December 5th 2001, Mironov is elected president of the Council of the Federation and is re-elected the January 23rd 2003. It takes part in the foundation and becomes the president of the Russian Parti the Life the April 19th 2003.

The electoral campaign of its party for the legislative ones of the December 7th 2003 occurs badly: in spite of an alliance with the party Rebirth of the president of the Duma of State Guennadi Seleznev, the coalition does not manage to exceed the threshold of federal representativeness of 5%.

Mironov is candidate with the presidential election of the March 14th 2004 against Vladimir Poutine under the banner of the Parti the Life . It will collect only 0,75% of the votes. Certain sources advance that Mironov was only one candidate marionette intended to give to the presidential election a pretense of plurality.

External bonds

• the official site of Mironov
• the party of the Life