Mironov’s Ouster Puts Party in Peril

Sergei Mironov attending a session of St. Petersburg’s legislature Wednesday. The lawmakers dismissed him. Raising the specter of a major shift in the political landscape, the long-serving Federation Council speaker and founder of the Just Russia party was ousted from his post in the upper chamber Wednesday. Sergei Mironov’s dismissal, which President Dmitry Medvedev sanctioned live on air just minutes before the actual ouster, threatens […]