Nadezhda Bondarenko

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

Early career

She worked as an investigator in the

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-PKP 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.^{[citation needed]}

Following the arrest of Oleg Khorzhan in early 2018, Bondarenko became acting chairperson of the PKP on 19 May 2018.^[3]

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