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.

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

Russia has frozen all adoptions to the United States, the Foreign Ministry announced Thursday as national outrage simmered over a towheaded 7-year-old boy sent alone on a plane back to Moscow by his adoptive mother. The boy is in a Moscow hospital, where doctors reportedly have found nothing aberrant in his condition. Just seven months after adopting the boy, 33-year-old nurse Torry Hansen wrote that he was violent, unstable and "psychopathic," and that she had been misled by the Russian orphanage workers who had vouched for his mental health. "A special agreement should be signed guaranteeing that the state maintains proper control of adopted children," Sergei Mironov told reporters.

Drivers in Russia are being asked to protest officials' flouting of traffic laws by honking when they see cars with flashing lights using opposing lanes to avoid jams or run red lights, a Russian newspaper said on Thursday. The Russian Car Owners Federation has launched its nationwide campaign under the motto "Flashing lights are Russia's shame," and the respected Kommersant daily said Moscow Mayor Yury Luzhkov and Federation Council Speaker Sergei Mironov supported the idea.

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

Sergei Mironov, the leader of the Just Russia Party and speaker of the Federation Council upper house of parliament, on Monday called on party members not to form any contacts with United Russia during the election campaigns. “There must be no agreements with United Russia, no election blocs. We must never take that road,” he told the meeting of the party’s Central Council.

Two policemen were killed in a suicide attack on Monday morning at the building of the Interior Minstry in Karabulak, Ingushetia. The bomber blew himself up at the entrance to the building, killing two officers and injuring thirteen more. Just Russia leader Sergei Mironov said: "Some mass media started playing into the hands of terrorists, trying to convince our citizens of the inefficiency of our means of fighting terrorists and the state's inability to protect its people."

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

The speaker of the upper house of the Russian parliament slammed on Wednesday proposals to reinstate the death penalty for terrorists. Sergei Mironov's comments came just two days after two deadly suicide bombings hit the Moscow metro, killing at least 39 people and injuring dozens more.

Sergei Mironov, speaker of the Federation Council upper house of Russian parliament, does not support death penalty for terrorists. He argued that because of blunders in a number of judicial processes, innocent people may be sentenced to death. Mironov told reporters, “The proposal of Lyskov, the chairman of the Federation Council Committee on Judicial and Legal Affairs, for death penalty for terrorists whose actions caused many deaths is his personal opinion.”

This year the parliaments of Belarus, Russia, and Kazakhstan will have to work hard to ratify Customs Union documents, said Sergei Mironov, Speaker of the upper chamber of the Russian parliament, at the roundtable session “Customs Union: legal foundation and development ways” on 30 March. Sergei Mironov remarked that parliamentarians of three countries will have to do a lot to unify antimonopoly laws and other areas of legislation.

Suicide-bomb blasts that killed 38 people in two Moscow subway stations brought the specter of southern Russia's Muslim insurgency back to the capital Monday, exposing flaws in what the Kremlin has often termed a successful antiterrorist strategy. "The terrorists wanted to demonstrate that no one in Russia can feel secure," said Sergei Mironov, the speaker of Russia's upper chamber of parliament.

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

“I have got everything I need,” was the response Grigory Perelman, the reclusive St. Petersburg mathematician who was this month been awarded the prestigious $1 million Millienium Prize by the U.S.-based Clay Mathematics Institute for solving the Poincare conjecture, threw at reporters through the closed door of his humble apartment in the southern part of the city. “First of all, peering into other people’s pockets is not a respectable habit,” said Sergei Mironov, the speaker of the Council of Federation, the upper chamber of the Russian parliament. “Grigory Perelman deserves, first and foremost, our admiration and deepest respect. As for accepting or rejecting the prize, the decision is going to be his own and exerting pressure on the man is unfair.”

A bizarre fight between the main pro-Kremlin parties returned to the political stage Wednesday when United Russia officials accused A Just Russia leader Sergei Mironov of conducting a "frenzied campaign" against the ruling party.The attacks centered on Mironov's remarks in an online interview with readers of the liberal Gazeta.ru news portal, in which he lambasted Clean Water, a tap water purification project sponsored by United Russia leader Boris Gryzlov.

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

Now that the Russian-Ukrainian relations have entered a new stage, the two states can better solve the problems they are facing, speaker of the Russian Council of Federation upper parliament house Sergei Mironov and Ukrainian Foreign Minister Konstantin Grishchenko said at their meeting here on Wednesday.

The ruling United Russia party swept regional elections over the weekend but, unlike in disputed elections last October, three other parties also managed to score minor victories, according to preliminary results released Monday. President Dmitry Medvedev in January called on regional authorities to allow people to vote freely, and Monday's results show that the authorities have obeyed, although the vote can still not be considered fair, political analysts said. Just Russia leader Sergei Mironov said Monday that United Russia owes its victory to its leader, Putin. "If Vladimir Putin weren't leading the party, United Russia would lose everywhere," Mironov said, Interfax reported.