Nationalist Boris Mironov detained in Moscow

On December 11, 2006, the co-chairman of the National Power Party of Russia (NDPR), former chairman of the Russian State Committee for Press Affairs, Boris Mironov (father of I. Mironov), was detained in Moscow. The detainee is accused of inciting national hatred. He was taken to Novosibirsk and is in pre-trial detention center No. 1.

Let us recall that the former minister of press has been wanted since October 2004. The prosecutor's office of the Central District of Novosibirsk opened a criminal case against Boris Mironov under Article 282 of the Criminal Code of the Russian Federation. The basis for initiating the case was a newsletter issued on the eve of the gubernatorial elections and paid for from the fund of gubernatorial candidate Boris Mironov. According to prosecutors, this bulletin contained anti-Semitic statements.

In January 2005, at the October House of Culture in Moscow, B. Mironov organized a presentation of his book “The Jewish Yoke,” which turned into an anti-Semitic rally.

On the same day, in Moscow, the son of B. Mironov, an active participant in national-patriotic organizations (in particular, he was a member of the executive committee of the Congress of Russian Communities), Ivan Mironov, wasdetained in the case of the assassination attempt on Chubais.

“We do not connect the detention of Boris Mironov with the detention of his son as part of the investigation into the criminal case of the attempt on the life of Anatoly Chubais,” stressed senior assistant prosecutor of the Novosibirsk region N. Markasova.

Sources

• Attempt on Chubais: father and son Mironov were detained // Rosbalt. 2006. December 11.
• The son of a famous nationalist was charged with the assassination attempt on Chubais // Polit.ru. 2006. December 11.
• Rodina deputy's assistant was detained on charges of assassination attempt on Chubais // REGNUM news agency. 2006. December 11.
• Mironov the father is accused of inciting hatred, Mironov the son is accused of attempting to assassinate Chubais // REGNUM news agency. 2006. December 11.