May 1st 2024.
Recently, a shocking story has emerged about a well-known political figure in Russia, Sergey Mironov, who is a strong supporter of President Putin. Mironov, who is now 71 years old, has been accused of committing a war crime by 'kidnapping' two children from Ukraine, a country currently under Russian occupation.
It all started when Mironov and his fifth wife, Irina Varlamova, allegedly 'adopted' a ten-month-old girl and a two-year-old boy from an orphanage in Ukraine. They even changed the girl's name to Marina Mironova on her birth certificate to make it seem like she was born in Moscow. However, an investigation revealed that the girl, whose real name is Margarita, has a legal guardian in Ukraine who is now living in exile in Greece with the child's older sister, Anna.
The Ukrainian officials are now demanding that Mironov and his wife return the girl to her rightful family so she can be reunited with her sister. As for the boy, he was brought to Russia by Varlamova, but after less than a week, Mironov and his wife rejected him. According to the Ukrainian TSN TV channel, the boy, who was two years old at the time, was thrown out like an 'unwanted kitten'.
It was later revealed that the reason for this rejection was because the boy had been diagnosed with a disease. Dmytro Lubinets, the Ukrainian Parliament's human rights ombudsman, stated that Varlamova got rid of the boy as soon as this information came to light. In leaked emails, Varlamova even complained that she was given a 'low quality child'.
The fate of the boy is still unknown, but it has been reported that a new birth certificate was issued for him in the Moscow region. The head of the Child Protection Department of the Office of the Prosecutor General in Ukraine stated that this is a common tactic used in Russia to make it difficult to find abducted children. The girl, who was taken by Mironov and Varlamova, also received a new ID and is now known as Marina Mironova, born in the Moscow region.
The pro-war politician, Sergey Mironov, has been accused of committing a grave crime by taking these children from their families in Ukraine. Lubinets has stated that they are aware of a family in Ukraine who is willing to take Margarita in and raise her with her own sister, Anna. However, the process of reuniting the sisters is complicated, as both girls are currently under the legal guardianship of their godmother, Daria Repina.
Daria has expressed her joy at the news that the girls are alive and that there is a possibility of them being reunited with their family. She believes that children should grow up in their own family, and that they have the right to be together. It has been reported that Mironov recently got married to Varlamova, and his loyalty and obedience to Putin have been known since he stood against the dictator in a presidential election in 2004.
Maria Chashchilova, a lawyer, has stated that Mironov's actions of 'adopting' these children are considered a form of genocide, as it involves the forcible transfer of children from one human group to another. According to international law, parties involved in a conflict must provide information about missing children to their relatives or guardians and help with their search.
The International Criminal Court has also indicted Putin and his children's ombudswoman, Maria Lvova-Belova, as war criminals for their involvement in the illegal human trafficking of young people from Ukraine to Russia. Mironov has dismissed these accusations and has stated that the adoption story is a result of 'fake hysteria' created by the Ukrainian special services and their Western allies. However, leaked documents and emails have shown that the Ukrainian child is now 'legally' adopted by Mironov and his wife.
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