Volodymyr Bondarenko Володимир Бондаренко |
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Head of the Kiev City State Administration | |
In office 7 March 2014 – 25 June 2014 |
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Preceded by | Volodymyr Makeyenko |
Succeeded by | Vitali Klitschko |
Personal details | |
Born |
Volodymyr Dmytrovych Bondarenko 4 December 1952 Okhinky, Pryluky Raion, Ukrainian SSR |
Political party |
Fatherland (2012–present) Reforms and Order Party (2002–2012) Non partisan (1991–2002) Communist Party of Ukraine (1977–1991) |
Spouse(s) | Halyna |
Children | Oksana Olha |
Alma mater | Taras Shevchenko National University |
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Volodymyr Dmytrovych Bondarenko (Ukrainian: Володимир Дмитрович Бондаренко) is a Ukrainian politician, People's Deputy of Ukraine and member of the citizens' association Choice. Bondarenko was the Head of Kiev City Administration from 7 March 2014 till 25 June 2014.
Bondarenko was born on December 4, 1952 in the village Ohinki, Pryluky Raion, Chernihiv Oblast.
Volodymyr Bondarenko also entered the faction of Reforms and Order party (leader - Viktor Pynzenyk). He as well actively participated in the Orange Revolution.
Volodymyr Bondarenko is married and has two daughters:
His hobbies are gardening, horticulture, beekeeping, folk art.
Bondarenko is the owner of an ethnographic complex "Ukrainian Village" just outside Kiev, 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.
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 Kiev; 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.