Olena Fedorivna Bondarenko (; born 13 February 1955) is a Ukrainian politician who served as a People's Deputy of Ukraine from 1998 to 2012, representing the People's Movement of Ukraine, Reforms and Order Party (as part of the Viktor Yushchenko Bloc), and Batkivshchyna (as part of the Yulia Tymoshenko Bloc). In 2000, she was awarded with Order of Merit, third class.
Bondarenko was born on 13 February 1955, in Tayshet, Irkutsk Oblast, Russia, in a concentration camp for political prisoners. Her father was a surgeon Ferenc Varkoni (1920âÂÂ1988), her mother Olha Bondarenko (b. 1926) was an engineer. Bondarenko is married, her husband Dmytro Basiliya (b. 1948) is a physician, they have one daughter Olha (b. 1990). She graduated Taras Shevchenko National University of Kyiv twice:
At the time of the election Bondarenko was Deputy Chairman of the Rukh movement, editor-in-chief of the newspaper "Chas/Time". In Verkhovna Rada she was member of the Committee on Rules, deputy ethics and organizational management of Verkhovna Rada of Ukraine (since July 1998).
Bondarenko was placed at number 105 on the electoral list of Batkivshchina during the 2012 Ukrainian parliamentary election. She was not re-elected into parliament. She did not participate in the 2014 Ukrainian parliamentary election.
Bondarenko is fond of poetry and music. She is the author of the collection of poems "Youth Age" (1980). Her works were printed in Bulgarian, Polish, Belarusian and Russian. She is fluent in Polish.