Sergey Mironov

In 1967 he joined the Komsomol.

In the 1970s, Mironov served in the airborne troops in the Soviet Army. In 1973 he was elected as deputy secretary committee of the Komsomol on ideological educational work at the Leningrad Mining Institute. After graduating from the Institute he worked as an engineer-geophysicist. After a brief time of working as an entrepreneur, he entered politics and, in 1994, was elected deputy of the St. Petersburg Legislative Assembly. In June 2000, he was elected vice-Chairman of the St. Petersburg Legislative Assembly and, in 2001, entered the Federation Council of Russia as a representative of St. Petersburg. In December 2001, Mironov was elected to be a Speaker of the Federation Council. Since February 2003, Mironov has been the Chairman of the Council of Inter-Parliamentary Assembly of States – members of the Commonwealth of Independent States and since April 2003 – Chairman of the Russian Party of Life. Sergey Mironov is from Saint Petersburg.

Mironov was a candidate in the 2004 presidential election. He was not considered to be a serious candidate and was quoted as saying: "We all want Vladimir Putin to be the next president."{{cite news|title=Zyuganov and Mironov: Back to the future|url=http://www.aljazeera.com/indepth/spotlight/russianelections/2012/02/201222535730502215.html|access-date=28 August 2017|work=Al Jazeera|date=26 February 2012|archive-date=9 March 2022|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20220309161118/https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2012/2/26/zyuganov-and-mironov-back-to-the-future|url-status=live}} He polled less than one per cent of the vote.

In October 2006, he became the leader of the new left-wing opposition party A Just Russia (Справедливая Россия), which was formed by uniting Rodina, Mironov's Russian Party of Life, and the Russian Pensioners' Party. This effectively makes him the leader of the opposition as the three parties together would be stronger than the Communist Party of the Russian Federation.

Mironov has several times proposed an amendment to the Russian constitution that would allow the President to be elected for 3 consecutive five or seven year terms. In 2007, Boris Gryzlov, leader of the rival United Russia party, said that changing the constitution would be unacceptable.

In the March 2012 presidential election, he received 3.86% of the votes.{{cite web|url=http://econo.com.ua/2012/03/oficialnye-rezultaty-vyborov-prezidenta-rf-4-marta-2012-goda/|title=Официальные результаты выборов президента РФ 4 марта 2012 года « Субъективные новости|access-date=5 May 2015|url-status=dead|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20150507015009/http://econo.com.ua/2012/03/oficialnye-rezultaty-vyborov-prezidenta-rf-4-marta-2012-goda/|archive-date=7 May 2015}}

During the 2022 Russian invasion of Ukraine, he referred to the Ukrainian government as a "Nazi regime" that "had to be destroyed".{{cite web | last = Kuznetsov | first = Sergei | title = Ukrainian surge throws Kremlin propagandists into disarray | url = https://www.politico.eu/article/kremlin-propaganda-into-disarray-war-zelenskyy-putin-ukraine-russia-kharkiv-kherson/ | publisher = Politico | date = September 12, 2022 | access-date = September 13, 2022 }}

In January 2023 he posted a photo of himself posing with a sledgehammer branded with Wagner Group logo atop an engraving of a pile of skulls. {{cite news |title=The Grisly Cult of the Wagner Group's Sledgehammer|url=https://theintercept.com/2023/02/02/wagner-group-violence-sledgehammer/|work= The Intercept|date=2 February 2023}} This sledgehammer was presented to him by the Wagner Group.{{Cite web |url=https://www.fontanka.ru/2023/01/20/71991053/|title=Полезный инструмент. Миронов похвастался новенькой кувалдой от ЧВК «Вагнер»|date=20 January 2023 }}

Russians critical of the 2022 Russian mobilization have used social media and other electronic means (e.g. Twitter) to enquire en masse Russia's top officials, who support war with Ukraine and mobilization, whether they themselves or their sons would go to the front. Most of them refused to answer or gave excuses, such as Mironov.{{Cite web |date=2022-09-22 |title="У них есть более важные и срочные дела". Что отвечают чиновники и депутаты на предложение отправиться в военкомат |url=https://www.bbc.com/russian/features-62999426 |website=BBC News Russian |language=ru}}

In late 2022, Russian opposition politician Nikita Yuferev accused Mironov of violating Russia's 2022 war censorship laws.{{cite news |title=Russian politician files legal challenge over Putin's reference to Ukraine "war" |url=https://www.reuters.com/article/ukraine-crisis-war-idCAKBN2T70O3 |work=Reuters |date=23 December 2022}}

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.{{cite news|title=EU sanctions list includes Russian commanders, Crimea PM|url=https://www.reuters.com/article/eu-russia-sanctions-idUSB5N0LP01720140317|access-date=18 March 2014|newspaper=Reuters|date=17 March 2014|archive-date=7 March 2016|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160307095954/http://www.reuters.com/article/eu-russia-sanctions-idUSB5N0LP01720140317|url-status=live}}{{Cite web |url=https://obamawhitehouse.archives.gov/the-press-office/2014/03/17/fact-sheet-ukraine-related-sanctions |title=White House |date=17 March 2014 |access-date=2021-03-02 |archive-date=2021-10-22 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20211022215828/https://obamawhitehouse.archives.gov/the-press-office/2014/03/17/fact-sheet-ukraine-related-sanctions |url-status=live }}{{Cite web |title=Ukraine-related Designations |date=2014-03-20 |publisher=US Department of Treasury |url=http://www.treasury.gov/resource-center/sanctions/OFAC-Enforcement/Pages/20140320_33.aspx |access-date=2014-04-01 |archive-date=2016-03-06 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160306123202/https://www.treasury.gov/resource-center/sanctions/OFAC-Enforcement/Pages/20140320_33.aspx |url-status=live }} On 25 July 2014, amidst the war in Donbas,{{cite news|url=https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-middle-east-26248275|title=Ukraine crisis: Timeline|work=BBC News|date=13 November 2014|access-date=5 May 2015|archive-date=3 June 2014|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20140603193226/http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-middle-east-26248275|url-status=live}} the Ukrainian Interior Ministry launched criminal proceedings against Mironov for alleged financial support of pro-Russian armed groups.{{cite web|url=https://news.pn/en/criminal/109976|title=The Ministry of Internal Affairs of Ukraine initiated proceedings against the leader of "Just Russia" Mironov for financing of terrorists|work=NEWS.PN|access-date=5 May 2015|archive-date=22 February 2015|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20150222181334/https://news.pn/en/criminal/109976|url-status=live}}{{Cite web |title=Executive Order - Blocking Property of Additional Persons Contributing to the Situation in Ukraine |date=20 March 2014 |url=https://obamawhitehouse.archives.gov/the-press-office/2014/03/20/executive-order-blocking-property-additional-persons-contributing-situat |publisher=The White House - Office of the Press Secretary |access-date=2 March 2021 |archive-date=14 May 2017 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20170514144353/https://obamawhitehouse.archives.gov/the-press-office/2014/03/20/executive-order-blocking-property-additional-persons-contributing-situat |url-status=live }}{{Cite web |title=Treasury Sanctions Russian Officials, Members Of The Russian Leadership's Inner Circle, And An Entity For Involvement In The Situation In Ukraine |url=http://www.treasury.gov/press-center/press-releases/Pages/jl23331.aspx |publisher=US Department of the Treasury |access-date=2016-02-21 |archive-date=2020-05-31 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200531053055/https://www.treasury.gov/press-center/press-releases/Pages/jl23331.aspx |url-status=live }}{{Cite web |url=http://www.treasury.gov/resource-center/sanctions/SDN-List/Pages/default.aspx |title=Specially Designated Nationals List (SDN) |access-date=2016-02-21 |archive-date=2020-08-29 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200829051611/https://www.treasury.gov/resource-center/sanctions/SDN-List/Pages/default.aspx |url-status=live }}{{cite web | last = Shuklin | first = Peter | title = Putin's inner circle: who got in a new list of US sanctions | url = https://news.liga.net/articles/politics/1066761-blizhniy_krug_putina_kto_popal_v_novyy_spisok_sanktsiy_ssha.htm | publisher = liga.net | date = March 21, 2014 | access-date = February 20, 2016 | url-status = dead | archive-url = https://web.archive.org/web/20150207152258/http://news.liga.net/articles/politics/1066761-blizhniy_krug_putina_kto_popal_v_novyy_spisok_sanktsiy_ssha.htm | archive-date = February 7, 2015 }}{{cite web | last = President of The United States | title = Ukraine EO13661 | url = https://www.treasury.gov/resource-center/sanctions/Programs/Documents/ukraine_eo2.pdf | publisher = Federal Register | date = March 19, 2016 | access-date = February 20, 2016 | archive-date = March 4, 2016 | archive-url = https://web.archive.org/web/20160304073439/https://www.treasury.gov/resource-center/sanctions/Programs/Documents/ukraine_eo2.pdf | url-status = live }}

Mironov was sanctioned by the United Kingdom government in 2014 in relation to the Russo-Ukrainian War, {{cite web |title=CONSOLIDATED LIST OF FINANCIAL SANCTIONS TARGETS IN THE UK |url=https://assets.publishing.service.gov.uk/government/uploads/system/uploads/attachment_data/file/1150217/Russia.pdf |access-date=16 April 2023}} 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.{{cite web |title=Special Economic Measures (Russia) Regulations (SOR/2014-58) |url=https://laws-lois.justice.gc.ca/eng/regulations/SOR-2014-58/page-4.html#docCont |access-date=24 June 2023}}

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.{{Cite web |url=http://www.baltinfo.ru/2012/04/13/Korotkostvol-ne-opasnee-elektrichestva-272078 |title="Короткоствол не опаснее электричества" |access-date=2012-06-28 |archive-date=2012-06-14 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120614140918/http://www.baltinfo.ru/2012/04/13/Korotkostvol-ne-opasnee-elektrichestva-272078 |url-status=live }} 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.[https://mironov.ru/moya-pozitsiya/pedofilam-smertnaya-kazn-2/ Педофилам — смертная казнь] He supported calls for the Death Penalty for those who perpetrated the Crocus City Hall attack.{{cite web | url=https://novayagazeta.eu/articles/2024/03/26/duma-considers-re-introduction-of-the-death-penalty-following-moscow-terror-attack-en-news | title=Duma considers re-introducing death penalty following Moscow attack | date=22 April 2016 }}

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.{{Cite web |url=http://www.bfm.ru/news/315076 |title="Миронов Медведеву: "Делай или уходи"" |access-date=2016-03-28 |archive-date=2016-03-15 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160315092513/http://www.bfm.ru/news/315076 |url-status=live }}{{Cite web |url=http://www.rbc.ru/society/10/02/2016/56baedd19a7947761de59c45 |title="Справедливая Россия потребовала от Медведева "делать или уходить"" |date=10 February 2016 |access-date=2016-03-28 |archive-date=2016-03-14 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160314170800/http://www.rbc.ru/society/10/02/2016/56baedd19a7947761de59c45 |url-status=live }} 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.{{Cite web |url=http://ria.ru/society/20160609/1445203222.html |title="Справедливая Россия предлагает финансировать медицину напрямую из бюджета" |date=9 June 2016 |access-date=2016-08-29 |archive-date=2016-08-15 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160815200857/http://ria.ru/society/20160609/1445203222.html |url-status=live }}

During the first day of the action, over 70,000 signatures were collected, by August 2016 - about 5 million.{{Cite web |url=http://www.hab.kp.ru/daily/26565/3581210/ |title="Пресс-конференция Сергея Миронова прошла в "Комсомольской правде в Хабаровске"" |access-date=2016-08-29 |archive-date=2016-08-09 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160809115411/http://www.hab.kp.ru/daily/26565/3581210/ |url-status=live }} 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.{{Cite web |url=http://echo.msk.ru/news/1656336-echo.html |title="Вице-премьеру Аркадию Дворковичу должны передать сегодня миллион подписей против сборов за капремонт" |access-date=2016-03-28 |archive-date=2018-07-06 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20180706031331/https://echo.msk.ru/news/1656336-echo.html |url-status=live }}{{Cite web |url=http://www.ng.ru/news/523375.html |title=""Справедливая Россия" собрала миллион подписей против сборов за капремонт" |access-date=2016-03-28 |archive-date=2016-04-10 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160410072420/http://www.ng.ru/news/523375.html |url-status=live }}

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.[http://asozd2.duma.gov.ru/main.nsf/(Spravka)?OpenAgent&RN=592302-7 Законопроект № 592302-7 О внесении изменений в статьи 26-3 и 26-11 Федерального закона «Об общих принципах организации законодательных (представительных) и исполнительных органов государственной власти субъектов Российской Федерации» (в части уточнения полномочий органов государственной власти субъектов Российской Федерации по обращению с безнадзорными животными) ] 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,{{Cite web |url=http://legalacts.ru/sud/apelliatsionnoe-opredelenie-verkhovnogo-suda-rf-ot-25012017-n-41-apg16-12/ |title=Апелляционное определение Верховного Суда РФ от 25.01.2017 N 41-АПГ16-12 |access-date=2018-11-28 |archive-date=2018-11-28 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20181128155101/http://legalacts.ru/sud/apelliatsionnoe-opredelenie-verkhovnogo-suda-rf-ot-25012017-n-41-apg16-12 |url-status=live}} 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.{{Cite web |url=http://asozd2c.duma.gov.ru/addwork/scans.nsf/ID/39CFE05607E588EA4325834D00269864/$FILE/592302-7_22112018_592302-7.PDF?OpenElement |title=Пояснительная записка |access-date=2018-11-28 |archive-date=2018-11-29 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20181129054455/http://asozd2c.duma.gov.ru/addwork/scans.nsf/ID/39CFE05607E588EA4325834D00269864/$FILE/592302-7_22112018_592302-7.PDF?OpenElement |url-status=live}}

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".{{Cite web |url=http://mironov.ru/publikatsii/v-rossii-vseh-bezdomnyh-zhivotnyh-budut-obyazatelno-vaktsinirovat/ |title=В России всех бездомных животных будут обязательно вакцинировать |access-date=2018-11-29 |archive-date=2018-11-29 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20181129100257/http://mironov.ru/publikatsii/v-rossii-vseh-bezdomnyh-zhivotnyh-budut-obyazatelno-vaktsinirovat/ |url-status=live}}

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.{{Cite web |url=https://tagilcity.ru/news/society/28-11-2018/zhizn-posle-priyuta-deputaty-gosdumy-rf-predlagayut-vozvrat-brodyachih-zhivotnyh-na-ulitsu?type=NewsItem |title=Жизнь после приюта: депутаты Госдумы РФ предлагают возврат бродячих животных на улицу |access-date=2020-01-31 |archive-date=2020-11-23 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20201123161403/https://tagilcity.ru/news/society/28-11-2018/zhizn-posle-priyuta-deputaty-gosdumy-rf-predlagayut-vozvrat-brodyachih-zhivotnyh-na-ulitsu?type=NewsItem |url-status=live}}

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.{{cite web|url=https://www.pnp.ru/russia-today/sergey-mironov-nazval-ocherednoy-aferoy-mify-o-globalnom-poteplenii.html|title=Сергей Миронов назвал очередной аферой мифы о глобальном потеплении|publisher=Парламентская газета|date=2016-05-13|accessdate=2020-09-09|archive-date=2021-06-19|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210619054251/https://www.pnp.ru/russia-today/sergey-mironov-nazval-ocherednoy-aferoy-mify-o-globalnom-poteplenii.html|url-status=live}}{{cite web|url= http://www.fa.ru/News/2019-12-11-mironov.aspx|title= Проход по ссылкам навигацииСергей Миронов рассказал студентам о спекуляциях на глобальном потеплении|publisher= Финансовый университет при Правительстве Российской Федерации|date= 2019-12-10|accessdate= 2020-09-09|archive-date= 2020-12-01|archive-url= https://web.archive.org/web/20201201211624/http://www.fa.ru/News/2019-12-11-mironov.aspx|url-status=live}}

File:Vladimir Putin and Sergey Mironov 2018-06-27.jpg on 27 June 2018]]

His third wife Irina Yurievna Mironova is an officer apparatus to the Interparliamentary Assembly of the CIS.{{cite web|url=http://www.russiaprofile.org/resources/whoiswho/alphabet/m/mironov.wbp|title=Russia Profile - BackGround People - Mironov, Sergei Mikhailovich|work=russiaprofile.org|access-date=5 May 2015|url-status=dead|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20050114061151/http://www.russiaprofile.org/resources/whoiswho/alphabet/m/mironov.wbp|archive-date=14 January 2005}} 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 birth place to Russia.{{cite news |title=Missing Ukrainian child traced to Putin ally |url=https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-europe-67488646 |work=BBC News |date=23 November 2023}}{{Cite web |date=2023-11-30 |title=Ombudsman confirms first case of Russian citizen changing identity of illegally adopted Ukrainian child |url=https://kyivindependent.com/ombudsman-first-recorded-case-of-russian-citizen-changing-identity-of-illegally-adopted-ukrainian-child/ |access-date=2024-12-04 |website=The Kyiv Independent |language=en}}

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.

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.{{Cite web|url=https://meduza.io/news/2022/01/28/the-insider-obnaruzhil-u-semi-sergeya-mironova-kvartiru-za-350-millionov-rubley-eto-pochti-v-70-raz-bolshe-godovogo-dohoda-politika|title=The Insider обнаружил у семьи Сергея Миронова квартиру за 350 миллионов рублей. Это почти в 70 раз больше годового дохода политика|website=Meduza|date=2022-01-28|access-date=2022-01-28|archive-date=2022-01-28|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20220128231405/https://meduza.io/news/2022/01/28/the-insider-obnaruzhil-u-semi-sergeya-mironova-kvartiru-za-350-millionov-rubley-eto-pochti-v-70-raz-bolshe-godovogo-dohoda-politika|url-status=live}} 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.

{{Main|Electoral history of Sergey Mironov}}

File:Putin Presidential Address to the Federal Assembly (2019-02-20) 18.jpg and Gennady Zyuganov on 20 February 2019]]

{{see also|2004 Russian presidential election}}

Mironov ran for president in the 2004 presidential election as the nominee of the Russian Party of Life. His 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.{{cite web |url=https://www.belfercenter.org/sites/default/files/legacy/files/rew104.pdf |title=Russian Election Watch Vol. 3, No. 4 |author= |date=March 2004 |website=www.belfercenter.org |publisher=Harvard University (Belfer Center for Science & International Affairs, Davis Center for Russian & Eurasian Studies) and Indiana University-Bloomington |access-date=October 23, 2018 |archive-date=October 30, 2018 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20181030035510/https://www.belfercenter.org/sites/default/files/legacy/files/rew104.pdf |url-status=live }}{{cite web |url=https://www.belfercenter.org/sites/default/files/legacy/files/rew204.pdf |title=Russian Election Watch Vol. 3, No. 5 |author= |date=February 2004 |website=www.belfercenter.org |publisher=Harvard University (Belfer Center for Science & International Affairs, Davis Center for Russian & Eurasian Studies) and Indiana University-Bloomington |access-date=October 29, 2018 |archive-date=March 9, 2022 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20220309161028/https://www.belfercenter.org/sites/default/files/legacy/files/rew204.pdf |url-status=live }}{{cite web |url=https://www.belfercenter.org/sites/default/files/legacy/files/rew304.pdf |title=Russian Election Watch Vol. 3, No. 6 |author= |date=March 2004 |website=www.belfercenter.org |publisher=Harvard University (Belfer Center for Science & International Affairs, Davis Center for Russian & Eurasian Studies) and Indiana University-Bloomington |access-date=October 23, 2018 |archive-date=March 2, 2018 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20180302163828/https://www.belfercenter.org/sites/default/files/legacy/files/rew304.pdf |url-status=live }} He was even quoted as declaring, "We all want Vladimir Putin to be the next president."{{cite web |title=Zyuganov and Mironov: Back to the future |url=https://www.aljazeera.com/indepth/spotlight/russianelections/2012/02/201222535730502215.html |publisher=Al Jazeera |access-date=24 June 2019 |date=26 February 2012 |archive-date=9 March 2022 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20220309161056/https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2012/2/26/zyuganov-and-mironov-back-to-the-future |url-status=live }}

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

Most Russians were unfamiliar with Mironov and were disinterested in his candidacy.{{Cite web |url=http://bd.fom.ru/report/map/of040603 |title=Кандидат в президенты С.Миронов FOM |access-date=2018-11-11 |archive-date=2018-11-12 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20181112021415/http://bd.fom.ru/report/map/of040603 |url-status=live }}{{Cite web |url=http://bd.fom.ru/report/map/dd040727 |title=С. Миронов - кандидат в президенты FOM |access-date=2018-11-11 |archive-date=2018-11-12 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20181112021334/http://bd.fom.ru/report/map/dd040727 |url-status=live }}

{{see also|2012 Russian presidential election}}

Running in 2012 as the A Just Russia nominee, Mironov called for a return to a socialist model of government. Mironov was nominated by his party on 10 December 2011.{{cite web |last1=Hedlund |first1=Stefan |title=Russia presidential election: Sergei Mironov - an 'independent' who once managed Putin |url=https://www.gisreportsonline.com/russia-presidential-election-sergei-mironov-an-independent-who-once-managed-putin,politics,1323.html |publisher=GIS Reports Online |access-date=24 June 2019 |date=19 January 2012 |archive-date=24 June 2019 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20190624050707/https://www.gisreportsonline.com/russia-presidential-election-sergei-mironov-an-independent-who-once-managed-putin,politics,1323.html |url-status=live }}

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

• Order of Merit for the Fatherland, 3rd class (14 February 2008) - for outstanding contribution to the strengthening and development of Russian statehood and parliamentarism
• Jubilee Medal "300 Years of the Russian Navy"
• Medal "In Commemoration of the 300th Anniversary of Saint Petersburg" (2003)
• Medal "In Commemoration of the 1000th Anniversary of Kazan" (2005)
• Medal "For military cooperation" (Ministry of Internal Affairs of Russia, 2005)
• Three times awarded personal firearms - Makarov, PMM and Vector pistols

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