This week the activity of Chairman of the Federation Council Sergei Mironov has been widely discussed in press.

Poland's Senate and Russia's Federation Council said in a declaration ending the second Polish- Russian Forum of Regions here on Wednesday that the two countries are willingness to continue cooperation between regions, promote undertakings in science, culture, sport, strengthen democracy and civic activity. The document was signed by Polish Senate Speaker Bogdan Borusewicz and visiting Chairman of the upper house of the Russian parliament Sergei Mironov.

A plane carrying a Russian delegation led by Federation Council Speaker Sergei Mironov to Poland had a scare Monday when it hit rough turbulence on approach to Warsaw, Interfax reported. No one was injured, and the plane landed safely.

Polish-Russian relations will run smoothly regardless of who becomes the next president of Poland, Sergey Mironov, head of the Russian Federation Council, told journalists, Tuesday. “Irrespective of whom Poland chooses as president, we will collaborate with him. I do not expect any changes for the worse in the bilateral ties to come in the wake of the upcoming presidential elections,” Mironov declared.

The speaker of the Russian Parliament’s upper house, the Council of the Federation, Sergei Mironov sees as promising the development of Russian-Polish interregional cooperation. According to him, the main thing is that Russia and Poland have preserved their cultural and human ties.

The speaker of the Russian Parliament’s upper house Sergei Mironov has laid a wreath at the grave of Polish President Lech Kaczynski and his wife Maria, who died in an air crash near Smolensk on April 10th.

Sergey Mironov, Speaker of Russia’s Federation Council, has said that Katyn should be a symbol of Polish-Russian historical reconciliation. Mironov, who started a three-day visit to Poland, Sunday, said that “Katyn is a common pain and a common tragedy” in an article published today in Rossiyskaya Gazeta.

This week the activity of Chairman of the Federation Council Sergei Mironov has been widely discussed in press.

Sergei Mironov has flown to Krakow on Sunday to lay flowers at the grave of the Polish President Lech Kaczynski, who died in a plane crash in April, and at the monument to the Soviet soldiers, who were killed liberating Poland during World War II.

The speaker of the upper house of the Russian parliament will start a two-day visit to Poland on Sunday, the Russian embassy in Warsaw said. Sergei Mironov will meet with acting Polish president Bronislaw Komorowski and Prime Minister Donald Tusk and attend the opening of the Second Forum of the Russian and Polish regions.

UNIDO Director-General, Kandeh K. Yumkella, urged today Russia and other countries of the Commonwealth of Independent States to invest more into research and development to support new breakthrough technologies for sustainable development. Director-General Yumkella had talks with Sergey Mironov, the Speaker of the Federation Council (upper house of the Russian parliament) and one of the organizers of the Congress. Mironov praised the cooperation between UNIDO and Russia.

The life of Federation Council Speaker Sergei Mironov is worth 2.8 million rubles ($93,000). The administration for the Federation Council has decided to take out a life insurance policy for that amount for the speaker as well as policies worth 2.3 million rubles ($76,000) for each of the other 166 senators in the upper house of the parliament.

This week the activity of Chairman of the Federation Council Sergei Mironov has been widely discussed in press.

Russian Federation Council speaker Sergei Mironov thanked German Bundesrat President Jens B·hrnsen on Thursday for care for Soviet war memorials. “We highly appreciate the efforts of German authorities to preserve Soviet war monuments and memorials,” he said at a meeting with Bohrnsen after laying a wreath to the Soviet Memorial in Treptow Park.

In an interview with the Voice of Russia on Thursday, Federation Council Speaker Sergei Mironov said that the 1945 Allied Victory over Nazi Germany added significantly to the establishment of a new world order.

It’s a pride to see so many Armenians among the veterans of the Great Patriotic War, Speaker of Russia’s Federation Council said. “Over 600 thousand of Armenians fought for our victory. 90 thousand were honored as USSR heroes,” Sergei Mironov said in his congratulatory address.

The crisis may be officially over, but that won't stop thousands of people across the country from using the May Day holiday as a traditional occasion to vent their anger over economic and political woes.

This week the activity of Chairman of the Federation Council Sergei Mironov has been widely discussed in press.

Chairman of the Federation Council of the Federal Assembly of Russian Federation Sergei Mironov has met here chiefs of CIS Parliament administrations.

Chiefs of CIS parliaments’ staff held a working meeting in the Russian Federation Council, APA’s Moscow correspondent reports. The guests acquainted themselves with the working system of the Federation Council. Following this, chiefs of CIS parliaments’ staff met with chairman of the Federation Council Sergei Mironov. Chairman of the CIS Interpatliamentary Assembly Sergei Mironov said such meetings were of great importance in exchanging experience and views.