Yelena Bondarenko is a member of All-Ukrainian Union "Fatherland", People's Deputy of Verkhovna Rada of Ukraine, Chairman of the Subcommittee on gender issues at the Committee on human rights, national minorities and international relations (since July 2006), member of Bloc Yulia Tymoshenko fraction (since May 2006). In 2000 she was awarded with Order of Merit, III class.[1][2][3]
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Yelena Bondarenko was born on February 13, 1955 in Taishet, Irkutsk region, Russia in a concentration camp for political prisoners.[4] Her father was a surgeon Ferenc Varkoni (1920–1988), her mother Olga Bondarenko (b. 1926) was an engineer.[5] Yelena Bondarenko is married, her husband Dmitry Basiliya (b.1948) is a physician, they have one daughter Olga (b.1990).[6] She graduated Kyiv National University named after Taras Shevchenko twice:
At the time of the election Yelena 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).[10]
Yelena Bondarenko is fond of poetry and music. She's been the author of the collection of poems "Youth Age" (1980). Her works were printed in Bulgarian, Polish, Belarusian and Russian languages. She is fluent in Polish language.[16]