Ivan Raidenovitch Raikov

Ivan Raidenovitch Raikov appears in the game Metal Gear Solid 3: Snake Eater. He is a part of the Russian military intelligence agency known as GRU and is the gay lover of Colonel Volgin. He is very similar in appearence to Raiden from Metal Gear Solid 2: Sons Of Liberty.

If you threaten him with a knife, he will give information about Volgin, but sometimes he'll also speak parts of Raiden's dialogue from MGS2. Raikov is defeated and stripped by Naked Snake, who uses his clothes to disguise himself in ]Groznyj Grad to get to the Shagohod.

Raikov's patronymic (a personal name based on the name of one's father), Raidenovitch, means "Son of Raiden".