Irina Khakamada

Irina Mutsuovna Khakamada (, born April 13, 1955) is a Russian politician who ran in the Russian presidential election, 2004. She is a member of The Other Russia coalition.

Biography

Khakamada was born to a Japanese father, Mutsuo Hakamada, a communist who defected to the Soviet Union in 1939, and Nina Sinelnikova, a Russian-Jewish schoolteacher who lost her father to the Stalinist purges and her mother to suicide following the family's forced relocation to Khabarovsk. Her paternal uncle is Satomi Hakamada, a longtime member of the Japanese Communist Party leadership. The Russia expert and Aoyama Gakuin University political science professor Shigeki Hakamada is her half-brother. In Kanji, her family name is ; in katakana, her name is イリーナ・ハカマダ.

She graduated from the Department of Economy of the Patrice Lumumba Peoples' Friendship University in Moscow in 1978. She later obtained her PhD degree from the Faculty of Economics of Lomonosov Moscow State University.

Irina Khakamada was an elected Duma representative from 1993 to 2003. She is commonly regarded as a...
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