Irina Muzuowna Chakamada

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Irina Muzuowna Chakamada ( Russian Ирина Муцуовна Хакамада ; born April 13, 1955 in Moscow ) is a Russian economist , politician , author, and television and radio presenter.

Chakamada was born into a family of Mutsuo Hakamada, a Japanese communist who moved to the Soviet Union in 1939 , and Nina Sinelnikova, a Russian teacher. Irina Chakamada's paternal uncle was Satomi Hakamada, a long-time member of the leadership of the Japanese Communist Party. Shigeki Hakamada, a Russia expert and professor of political science at Aoyama Gakuin University , is Irina Chakamada's half-brother. Her family name is 袴 田 in Kanji and ハ カ マ ダ in Katakana .

Irina Chakamada studied economics at the Patrice Lumumba University in Moscow and later received her doctorate from Lomonosov University . From 1980 she worked as a research assistant in the research institute of the Gosplan .

Irina Chakamada has been politically active in Russia since the 1990s, always taking liberal-conservative positions. From 1993 to 2003 she was a member of the State Duma , initially from the Party of Economic Freedom (Partija ekonomitscheskoi swobody) , which she co-founded , and from 1999 the Union of Right Forces . From 2000 she was Deputy Speaker of the State Duma. In 2004 Irina Chakamada applied for the Russian presidency . In the same year she founded the party Our Choice (Nash Vybor) , which, however, was not recognized and in 2006 was absorbed into Mikhail Kasyanov 's People's Democratic Union .

In May 2008, Chakamada declared her abandonment of any political activity and since then (as of June 2010) she has devoted herself to work on books and as a television and radio presenter and teaches at the Moscow Institute for International Relations (MGIMO). She runs the fashion label ChakaMa together with designer Lena Makaschowa .

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SURNAME Chakamada, Irina Muzuowna
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Хакамада, Ирина Муцуовна (Russian spelling)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Russian politician
DATE OF BIRTH April 13, 1955
PLACE OF BIRTH Moscow