Volodymyr Bondarenko (politician)

Volodymyr Dmytrovych Bondarenko (Володимир Дмитрович Бондаренко; 4 December 1952 – 24 August 2021) was a Ukrainian politician who served as People's Deputy of Ukraine and as member of the citizens' association Choice. Bondarenko was the Head of the Kyiv City Administration from 7 March 2014 until 25 June 2014.

Biography
Bondarenko was born on 4 December 1952 in the village of Okhinky, in Chernihiv Oblast of what was then the Ukrainian Soviet Socialist Republic.

Education

 * 1972 – he graduated from Pryluky pedagogical college named after I. Franko, Department of Labor
 * 1977 – graduated from Kyiv State University named after T. Shevchenko, History Department, with qualification of history and social science teacher
 * 1998 – he graduated from the same university, law faculty, with qualification of lawyer

Career

 * 1976–1977 – history and geography teacher at Kalynivska 8-year school, Gorodyshchensky district, Cherkasy region
 * 1977–1986 – work at Komsomol and Communist Party: Leningradsky Rayon Komsomol Committee, Kyiv Komsomol Committee and Leningrad Rayon Communist Party Committee of Kyiv city
 * 1986–1990 – Deputy Chairman, the 1st vice-chairman of the Leningrad Rayon Council of People's Deputies of Kyiv city
 * 1990–1991 – Chairman of the Leningrad Rayon Council of People's Deputies of Kyiv city
 * 1991–1992 – Head of the housing department, Deputy Head of the Kyiv City State Administration
 * 1992–1996 – Head of Marketing Department, JSC "KyivNaftoProduct"
 * March 1996 – July 1996 – Deputy Minister of Justice of Ukraine, Chief of Administrative Service of the Ministry of Justice
 * 2014 – Head of the Kyiv City State Administration

Volodymyr Bondarenko also entered the faction of Reforms and Order party (leader – Viktor Pynzenyk). He as well actively participated in the Orange Revolution.

Business and social activities

 * JSC "Aktiv"
 * JSC "Ukzovnіshpalyvo"
 * research and production enterprise (rus. – NPP) "Linoplast" (recycling and waste disposal)
 * LLC "Anvi"
 * Public Association "We"
 * Public organization Festival “Kyivska Rus"
 * Charitable Foundation "Ridna Oselya"

Family and hobbies
Volodymyr Bondarenko was married and has two daughters:

His hobbies were gardening, horticulture, beekeeping, folk art.
 * Spouse Halyna (born 1951), a historian
 * Daughter Oksana, (born 1976), married as Oksana Velychko, later Rotmanskij, Coordinator of the government and civic initiative “Together against corruption”
 * Daughter Olha, (born 1981), is working at the law firm Salkom

Criminal charges
Bondarenko was the owner of an ethnographic complex "Ukrainian Village" just outside Kyiv, a careful reconstruction of rural life in 19th-century Ukraine. However, there are criminal allegations that he built the village by appropriating State-owned land, and with no license. Bondarenko was investigated in 2005.

As well, the origin of the wealth of the daughter, Ms. Oksana Velychko, have been under severe judicial and press scrutiny, and her credibility as an anti-corruption activist put in doubt

Verkhovna Rada

 * April 1996 – April 1998 – People's Deputy of the 2nd convocation of the Verkhovna Rada of Ukraine in Leningradsky electoral district No. 8 in Kyiv. Member of the Committee on the basic industries and social-economic development of the regions
 * March 1998 – April 2002 – People's Deputy of the 3rd convocation of the Verkhovna Rada in electoral district No. 212 in Kyiv. Member of the Committee on Industrial Policy (since July 1998)
 * April 2002 – May 2006 – People's Deputy of the 4th Verkhovna Rada in electoral district No. 219 in Kyiv, elected from the Yushchenko bloc "Our Ukraine". Member of the State Committee on national construction and local self-government issues (since June 2002), Chairman of the subcommittee on election laws and citizens associations. At the 2006 national parliamentary elections his Reforms and Order Party won in an alliance with PORA 1.47% of the popular vote and no seats. After the Kyiv local election 2006 Volodymyr Bondarenko became a deputy in the Kyiv City Council for the Vitaliy Klychko Bloc and was in rigid opposition to the team of then mayor Leonid Chernovetsky. He took an active part in political battles that were unfolding almost at every session of the Kyiv City Council. He actively supported the idea of holding a referendum for impeachment of the mayor and City Council team.
 * since November 2007 – People's Deputy of the 6th Verkhovna Rada from the Yulia Tymoshenko Bloc, No. 100 in the list. Member of the Budget Committee (since December 2007), Chairman of the subcommittee on tracking the influence of legislation on the budget performance (since January 2008)
 * Chairman of the Subcommittee on tracking the impact of legislation on the budget performance, Budget committee of Verkhovna Rada
 * Deputy member of the permanent delegation to the Parliamentary Assembly of the Organization for Security and Cooperation in Europe
 * Member of the Group for Interparliamentary Relations with the People's Republic of China
 * Member of the Group for Interparliamentary Relations with the Republic of Chile
 * Member of the Group for Interparliamentary Relations with Japan
 * Member of the Group for Interparliamentary Relations with Canada
 * Member of the Group for Interparliamentary Relations with the South African Republic
 * Member of the Group for Interparliamentary Relations with the Islamic Republic of Afghanistan
 * Member of the Group for Interparliamentary Relations with the Republic of Italy

In the 2012 Ukrainian parliamentary election Bondarenko was Batkivshchyna's candidate in single-member districts number 219 (first-past-the-post wins a parliament seat) located in Kyiv; with 44.2% of the votes he was re-elected into parliament. His Reforms and Order Party merged into All-Ukrainian Union "Fatherland" in June 2013.

Local Kyiv politics
In the 2014 Kyiv mayoral elections he finished 3rd (after Vitali Klitschko who won with almost 57% of the votes) with 8%. He was elected into the Kyiv City Council since his party won 3 seats.

In the 2014 parliamentary election Bondarenko was a candidate in single-member districts number 219 in Kyiv; but this time was defeated by Petro Poroshenko Bloc candidate Oleksandr Tretiakov.

In the October 2015 Kyiv local elections Bondarenko was again candidate for Mayor of Kyiv for Batkivshchyna. He lost this election (again to Klitschko), but was elected into the Kyiv City Council.

In the October 2020 Kyiv local election Bondarenko was placed third on a Kyiv City Council district list in Kyiv's Shevchenkivskyi District by Batkivshchyna. He was not elected.