Olena Bondarenko (Yulia Tymoshenko Bloc politician)

Olena Fedorivna Bondarenko (Ukrainian: Олена Федорівна Бондаренко; born 13 February 1955) is a Ukrainian politician who served as a People's Deputy of Ukraine from 1998 to 2012, representing the People's Movement of Ukraine, Reforms and Order Party (as part of the Viktor Yushchenko Bloc), and Batkivshchyna (as part of the Yulia Tymoshenko Bloc). In 2000, she was awarded with Order of Merit, third class.[1][2][3]

Olena Bondarenko
Олена Бондаренко
Official portrait, 2007
People's Deputy of Ukraine
In office
12 May 1998  12 December 2012
Constituency
Personal details
Born (1955-02-13) 13 February 1955
Tayshet, Irkutsk Oblast, Russian SFSR, Soviet Union (now Russia)
Political partyBatkivshchyna (2006–2012)
Other political
affiliations
Alma materTaras Shevchenko National University of Kyiv

Biography

Bondarenko was born on 13 February 1955, in Tayshet, Irkutsk Oblast, Russia in a concentration camp for political prisoners.[2] Her father was a surgeon Ferenc Varkoni (1920–1988), her mother Olha Bondarenko (b. 1926) was an engineer.[2] Bondarenko is married, her husband Dmytro Basiliya (b. 1948) is a physician, they have one daughter Olha (b. 1990).[4] She graduated Taras Shevchenko National University of Kyiv twice:

  • 1994 - Faculty of Journalism
  • 2000 - Legal Faculty

Career

  • August 1979 - June 1983 - Accountant, Luhansk Organization of the Union of Writers of Ukraine
  • February 1984 - August 1986 - Assistant, Luhansk organization of the "Znanie" (eng.- knowledge) society
  • September 1986- May 1993 - radio announcer, Luhansk clothing association "Style", correspondent of the newspaper "Patriot Rodiny" (eng.- patriot of the homeland)
  • May 1989 - June 1990 VKR UNDL. December 1989- October 1991 - Deputy Chairman, Luhansk regional Rukh organization
  • October 1991 - June 1993 - chairman, Lugansk regional Rukh organization
  • June 1993-April 1994 - Head of political analysis department, Rukh secretariat
  • April 1994 - 1997 - Deputy Chairman of the Rukh movement, Head of ideology, propaganda and agitation sector
  • January 1997 - May 1998 - editor-in-chief of the newspaper "Chas/Time"[1][2][3]

Verkhovna Rada

  • March 1998 - April 2002 - People's Deputy of Ukraine in the 3rd Verkhovna Rada, No. 13 on the list, elected from Rukh.

At the time of the election Bondarenko was Deputy Chairman of the Rukh movement, editor-in-chief of the newspaper "Chas/Time". In Verkhovna Rada she was member of the Committee on Rules, deputy ethics and organizational management of Verkhovna Rada of Ukraine (since July 1998).[1]

Bondarenko was placed at number 105 on the electoral list of Batkivshchina during the 2012 Ukrainian parliamentary election.[6] She was not re-elected into parliament.[7] She did not participate in the 2014 Ukrainian parliamentary election.[8]

Hobbies

Bondarenko is fond of poetry and music. She's been the author of the collection of poems "Youth Age" (1980). Her works were printed in the Bulgarian, Polish, Belarusian and Russian languages. She is fluent in Polish.[1]

See also

References

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