Nadezhda Andreevna Bondarenko (russian: Надежда Андре́евна Бондаренко; born 19 October 1950) is a

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n politician who has served as the acting chairperson of the Pridnestrovie Communist Party (PCP) since late 2018. She was formerly a

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, and was the PCP's candidate for the 2006 presidential election. She is currently the

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of the PCP's party newspaper, '' Pravda Pridnestrovya''. She is of

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and

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descent.

Early career

She worked as an investigator in the

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as part of the Tiraspol Internal Affairs Directorate. She later joined the Department of Transport of the Ministry of Internal Affairs of Transnistria. In 1999, she retired with the rank of Major. In 1991 she joined the ranks of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union. In 2003, she among the first founders of the CPP.

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. 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.13 March 2007. "Communists rally in Moldova's breakaway region", rian.ru
/ref> Following the arrest of Oleg Khorzhan in early 2018, Bondarenko became acting chairperson of the PCP on 19 May 2018.

References

1950 births Living people People from Ivanovo Transnistrian people of Russian descent Pridnestrovie Communist Party politicians {{Moldova-politician-stub