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| Affiliation | Independent |
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| Name | Irina Khakamada |
| Address |
Saint Petersburg, , Russia |
| Email | None |
| Website | http://www.hakamada.ru/ |
| Born |
April 13, 1955
(69 years)
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| Contributor | Jake |
| Last Modifed | CincinnatiReds1990
Feb 22, 2012 12:31pm |
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| Info | One of the former leaders of the Union of Right Forces (SPS) and the only female candidate in the 2004 presidential race, Irina Khakamada first came into the limelight in the early 1990s among the first post-Soviet entrepreneurs when she founded�� together with the flamboyant millionaire Konstantin Borovoy�� the Russian Commodity and Raw Materials Exchange, where she sat on the board of directors and served as chief expert.
Irina Khakamada was born in 1955 to Russian-Japanese parents�� her father was a Japanese Communist who defected to the USSR in 1939. Upon graduating from Moscow�s Lumumba International University where she majored in economics, Khakamada defended her dissertation at Moscow State University and worked as a junior associate at Gosplan (Soviet state planning agency), and later spent five years teaching.
In 1989, Khakamada began her career as an entrepreneur, as well as becoming actively involved with charities and social welfare organizations. These activities eventually led her to politics. In 1993, Irina Khakamada was elected to the State Duma from one of Moscow�s single-mandate districts. In 1995, she was once again elected to the parliament. During her tenure in the State Duma, Irina Khakamada was offered a post of the First Deputy Minister of Anti-Monopoly Policies and the support of entrepreneurs, but she refused it.
In 1999, Irina Khakamada became the head of the Institute of the Entrepreneurship and was once again re-elected to the State Duma. In 2000, she became one of the vice-speakers of the lower house of the Parliament. When the Union of Right Forces (SPS) was established as a political party in May 2001, Khakamada became one of its co-chairs, along with Yegor Gaidar, Boris Nemtsov, and Anatoly Chubais.
In the 2003 parliamentary elections, Irina Khakamada failed to re-enter the State Duma as she lost in the single-mandate district of St. Petersburg to the former speaker of the Parliamet, Gennady Seleznev, and the Union of Right Forces did not clear the 5% hurdle necessary to create a parliamentary faction.
Irina Khakamada decided to take part in the presidential elections of 2004 to show that liberal opposition will not disappear from the Russian political scene. The SPS congress which took place in January 2004 decided not to offer official support to Khakamada. From the outset of her campaign Khakamada proclaimed herself to be a �political opponent of the of the candidate Vladimir Putin�. At a press-conference this January, she accused Putin of suppressing the truth about the Nord-Ost siege and of creating a society based on lies and fear. Soon after the elections where she took fourth place, receiving 3,84% of the vote, Khakamada announced the creation of the Free Russia Democratic Party.
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