Who says women have no place in politics? The fact that this is a false statement is proved by a well-known public figure, Russian politician, television and radio presenter, and writer Irina Khakamada. The biography of this successful woman will arouse notes of envy among many girls and even men who for years have been trying to achieve at least half of what Irina has achieved.
Childhood, adolescence, youth
Irina, the future “politician of the 21st century” (according to the Time magazine), was born in 1955, on April 13, in the city of Moscow. The girl’s father, Mutsuo Hakamada, was a Japanese communist who had to emigrate to the USSR for political reasons and accept Soviet citizenship in 1939. In 1991 he died. Irina's mother, Nina Iosifovna Sinelnikova, worked as a teacher.
Irina Khakamada, whose biography is full of not only political and social facts, graduated from the Peoples' Friendship University named after Patrice Lumumba (Department of Economics). Next, the purposeful girl received the degree of candidate of economic sciences at the Faculty of Economics of Moscow State University. M.V. Lomonosov. In 1983, she received the title of "Associate Professor" (specialty - "Political Economy").
Career
Irina Khakamada (biography notes this) was listed as a junior research fellow at the Research Institute of the State Planning Committee of the RSFSR, worked at the ZIL plant (in VTUZ) as a senior teacher, assistant professor, deputy head of the department.
In 1989, Hakamada decided to engage in entrepreneurial activity. She led more than one cooperative and center. So, her business list includes: the cooperative System + Programs, the Information and Analytical Center, whose director was Khakamada, the Russian Commodity and Raw Materials Exchange. In addition, Irina was engaged in charity work. The woman became the organizer of the bedridden care service in Moscow (in the Sverdlovsk region).
Khakamada’s political career begins with her election to the State Duma of the Federal Assembly of the Russian Federation as an independent deputy from the Orekhovo-Borisovsky District of Moscow. Khakamada, whose biography is incredibly rich, was a member of the State Duma Committee on Economic Policy, organizer of the group of deputies "Liberal Democratic Union" (1994), member of the State Duma Committee on Taxes, Budget, Banks and Finance (1996).
In 1997, Irina received the position of Chairman of the RF State Committee for the Development and Support of Small Business. Two years later, Khakamada became the head of the Institute for Business Development. Her political activities are so multifaceted that it is often difficult to believe that we have a woman. Until 2000, Khakamada was the Chairperson of the Central Council of the All-Russian Political Public Organization “Common Affair, ” which Irina was the creator of.
In 2004, Khakamada also nominated her candidate. The biography of a politician could change dramatically, but Irina received about 4 million votes. Until 2008, she was part of the public movement "Russian People's Democratic Union." In March of that year, Hakamada announced that she was ending her political activities.
Present
Now Irina Khakamada is working on her own books (“SEX in Big Politics” (2006), “LOVE. OUTSIDE GAMES. The Story of a Political Suicide” (2007), “SUCCESS in the Big City” (2008)). She leads copyright programs on how to become successful on radio and television, gives master classes and trainings, at one time she taught at MGIMO. Based on the materials of the master classes, Hakamada published the book “Tao of Life” (2010).
