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.

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.

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