Irina Khakamada

Irina Mutsuovna Khakamada (Russian: Ири́на Муцу́овна Хакама́да; IPA: [ɪˈrʲinə mʊˈtsuəvnə xəkɐˈmadə], born April 13, 1955 in Moscow) is a Russian politician who ran in the Russian presidential election, 2004. She is a member of The Other Russia coalition.

Khakamada was born to a Japanese father, Mutsuo Hakamada, a communist who defected to the Soviet Union in 1939, and Nina Sinelnikova, who is of Russian and Armenian roots, 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 袴田; 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. She was a member of the CPSU from 1984 to 1989.

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