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 later joined the Department of Transport of the Ministry of Internal Affairs of Transnistria.
In 1991 she joined the ranks of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union.
[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.
[citation needed] Following the arrest of Oleg Khorzhan in early 2018, Bondarenko became acting chairperson of the PKP on 19 May 2018.