Olena Fedorivna Bondarenko


Olena Fedorivna Bondarenko is a member of All-Ukrainian Union "Fatherland", People's Deputy of Verkhovna Rada of Ukraine, Chairman of the Subcommittee on gender issues at the Committee on human rights, national minorities and international relations, member of Bloc Yulia Tymoshenko fraction.
In 2000 she was awarded with Order of Merit, III class.

Biography

Bondarenko was born on February 13, 1955 in Taishet, Irkutsk region, Russia in a concentration camp for political prisoners. Her father was a surgeon Ferenc Varkoni, her mother Olga Bondarenko was an engineer.
Bondarenko is married, her husband Dmitry Basiliya is a physician, they have one daughter Olga.
She graduated Taras Shevchenko National University of Kyiv twice:
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.
Bondarenko was placed at number 105 on the electoral list of Batkivshchina during the 2012 Ukrainian parliamentary election. She was not re-elected into parliament. She did not participate in the 2014 Ukrainian parliamentary election.

Hobbies

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