Irina Mutsuovna Hakamada (Russian: Ири́на Муцу́овна Хакама́да, Russian pronunciation: [ɪˈrʲinə mutsuˈovnə xəkɐˈmadə], born April 13, 1955) is a Russian politician who ran in the Russian presidential election, 2004. Russian ( transliteration:,) is the most geographically widespread language of Eurasia, the most widely spoken of the Slavic languages Events 1111 - Henry V is crowned Holy Roman Emperor. 1204 - The Fourth Crusade sacks Constantinople Year 1955 ( MCMLV) was a Common year starting on Saturday (link displays the 1955 Gregorian calendar) Russia (Россия Rossiya) or the Russian Federation ( Rossiyskaya Federatsiya) is a transcontinental Country extending Presidential elections were held in Russia on March 14, 2004. She is a member of The Other Russia coalition. The Other Russia (Другая Россия Drugaya Rossiya) sometimes cited as Another Russia, is an umbrella coalition that gathered opponents of then Russian
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Hakamada's father, Mutsuo Hakamada, was a Japanese communist who escaped from Japan to the Soviet Union in 1938. For a topic outline on this subject see List of basic Japan topics. Communism is a Socioeconomic structure that promotes the establishment of an egalitarian, classless, stateless Society based For a topic outline on this subject see List of basic Japan topics. The Union of Soviet Socialist Republics (USSR was a constitutionally Socialist state that existed in Eurasia from 1922 to 1991 Her family name is sometimes transliterated Khakamada; in Japanese, it is 袴田. A family name or last name is a type of Surname and part of a person's name indicating the family to which the person belongs is a language spoken by over 130 million people in Japan and in Japanese emigrant communities Her uncle Satomi Hakamada was the Chairman of Japanese Communist Party Central Committee. The Japanese Communist Party ( JCP) ( Japanese " 日本共産党 Nihon Kyōsan-tō) is a Political party in Japan. [1]
She graduated from the Department of Economy of the Patrice Lumumba Peoples' Friendship University in Moscow in 1978. The Peoples' Friendship University of Russia ( Russian: Российский университет дружбы народов РУДН is an educational and research institution
Irina Hakamada was an elected representative in Russian Duma from 1993 to 2003. A Duma (Ду́ма is any of various representative assemblies in modern Russia and Russian history Year 1993 ( MCMXCIII) was a Common year starting on Friday (link will display full 1993 Gregorian calendar) Year 2003 ( MMIII) was a Common year starting on Wednesday of the Gregorian calendar. She is commonly regarded as a democratic politician who is in a moderate opposition to the Russian government. She is known for criticizing the governmental actions during Moscow theater hostage crisis where she was involved as one of the negotiators. The Moscow theater hostage crisis, also known as the 2002 Nord-Ost siege, was the seizure of a crowded Moscow Theatre on October 23 Hakamada stated that the hostage takers were not going to use their bombs to kill the people and destroy the building [1]. This opinion was supported by other negotiators including Anna Politkovskaya and by the subsequent events when the Chechens did not use their bombs. Anna Stepanovna Politkovskaya ( Анна Степановна Политковская) (30 August 1958 – 7 October 2006 was a Russian Journalist, author and Chechens ( Chechen: Hохчи / Noxçi) constitute the largest native Ethnic group originating in the North Caucasus region
Hakamada was one of the leaders of the Union of Right Forces, when she decided to run in the Russian presidential election, 2004. The Union of Right Forces, or SPS (Сою́з Пра́вых Сил СПС/Soyuz Pravykh Sil was a Russian democratic opposition party associated Presidential elections were held in Russia on March 14, 2004. She was not supported by her own party, because they regarded her as the only opponent of president Putin (all other candidates were not opposed to the President's policies). She received 3. 9% of votes [2]. Publicist Yulia Latynina in her article in Novaya Gazeta [3] claimed that she only staged a role of a democratic opponent to provide more legitimacy to the election of Vladimir Putin, a role that Grigory Alexeyevich Yavlinsky refused to play. Yulia Leonidovna Latynina (born June 16, 1966, Юлия Леонидовна Латынина is a Russian journalist writer and radio host Novaya Gazeta (Новая Газета is a Russian newspaper Vladimir Vladimirovich Putin (; born 7 October 1952 in Leningrad, USSR; now Saint Petersburg, Russia was the second President of Russia Grigory Alexeyevich Yavlinsky (Russian Григорий Алексеевич Явлинский born April 10, 1952) is a Russian Economist However Hakamada denied such allegations [4].
After the election, Hakamada founded a political party, Our Choice, which eventually merged with the People's Democratic Union led by Mikhail Kasyanov and her. Mikhail Mikhailovich Kasyanov (Михаи́л Миха́йлович Касья́нов) - (born December 8 1957) was the Prime Minister of Russia She published book "Sex in big-time politics" [5] (in the sense of gender, not activity) describing her personal experience of work in Kremlin [6].
On 11 June 2006 Boris Berezovsky said Boris Nemtsov received a word from Hakamada that Putin threatened her and like-minded colleagues in person. Boris Abramovich Berezovsky (Бори́с Абра́мович Березо́вский (also known as Platon Elenin (born January 23, 1946) is a Russian Boris Efimovich Nemtsov (Борис Ефимович Немцов (born October 9 1959) is a former Deputy Prime Minister of Russia one of co-founders of the According to Berezovsky, Putin uttered that Hakamada and her colleagues "will take in the head immediately, literally, not figuratively" if they "open the mouth" about the Russian apartment bombings. The Russian apartment bombings were a series of explosions that hit four apartment blocks in the Russian cities of Buynaksk, Moscow and Volgodonsk [2]
On 19 October 2006 at the Frontline Club former FSB officer Alexander Litvinenko said he had learned from Anna Politkovskaya that Putin asked Hakamada to pass a threat to Politkovskaya. The Federal Security Service of the Russian Federation ( FSB) ( Russian: ФСБ Федера́льная слу́жба безопа́сности Federalnaya Alexander Valterovich Litvinenko (Алекса́ндр Ва́льтерович Литвине́нко ( 30 August 1962 – 23 November 2006 Anna Stepanovna Politkovskaya ( Анна Степановна Политковская) (30 August 1958 – 7 October 2006 was a Russian Journalist, author and [3] Irina Hakamada denied her involvement in passing any specific threats, and said that she warned Politkovskaya only in general terms more than a year ago, and that Politkovskaya blamed her and Mikhail Kasyanov for becoming Kremlin's puppets. Mikhail Mikhailovich Kasyanov (Михаи́л Миха́йлович Касья́нов) - (born December 8 1957) was the Prime Minister of Russia [4] Politkovskaya and Litvinenko were killed in October and November 2006.