Nadezhda Bondarenko

Nadezhda Bondarenko (Russian: Надежда Бондаренко; born 19 October 1950) is a Transnistrian politician who has served as the acting chairperson of the Pridnestrovie Communist Party (PCP) since late 2018. She was formerly a police officer, and was the PCP's candidate for the 2006 presidential election. She is currently the editor-in-chief of the PCP's party newspaper, Pravda Pridnestrovya.[1] She is of Russian and Ukrainian descent.

Nadezhda Bondarenko
Chairperson of the Pridnestrovie Communist Party
Acting
Assumed office
12 December 2018
Preceded byOleg Khorzhan
Personal details
Born (1950-10-19) 19 October 1950
Ivanovo, Russian SFSR, Soviet Union
Political partyPridnestrovie Communist Party

Political career

In the 2006 presidential election, Bondarenko received 8.1% of the vote, second to Smirnov, who won his fourth term in office with 82.4% of the vote.[2]

Bondarenko, then-PCP chairperson Oleg Khorzhan and three other activist were arrested on March 11, 2007, when handing out leaflets ahead of an anti-Smirnov rally and sentenced to three days' detention as an administrative punishment. On March 13, a communist demonstration took place in Tiraspol against growing consumer prices and energy tariffs and to demand the release of the communist leaders.[3]

Following the arrest and sentencing of Oleg Khorzhan to four and a half years in prison in late 2018, Bondarenko became acting chairperson of the PCP.

References
  1. "81% российских телезрителей признают волю Южной Осетии, Абхазии и Приднестровья на самоопределение". NewdayNews.ru. 17 November 2006. Retrieved 5 January 2018.
  2. Trans-Dniester separatist authorities in eastern Moldova detain opposition leaders, 12 March 2007. Kyiv Post
  3. 13 March 2007. "Communists rally in Moldova's breakaway region", rian.ru


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