Andrey Alexeyevich Khapochkin (Russian: Андрей Алексеевич Хапочкин; born 7 October 1968) is a Russian politician serving as a senator from Sakhalin Oblast since 6 October 2022.
[1] Andrey Khapochkin was born on 29 August 1958 in Irkutsk Oblast.
Later Khapochkin worked as an editor, correspondent, and TV host.
From 2002 to 2006, he headed the youth policy department of the administration of the Sakhalin region.
[1][2] Since Khapochkin was appointed senator only in October 2022, he has not yet been included, as other senators, in the list of personal sanctions introduced by the European Union, the United Kingdom, the USA, Canada, Switzerland, Australia, Ukraine, New Zealand, for ratifying the decisions of the "Treaty of Friendship, Cooperation and Mutual Assistance between the Russian Federation and the Donetsk People's Republic and between the Russian Federation and the Luhansk People's Republic" and providing political and economic support for Russia's annexation of Ukrainian territories.