Bondarenko, Konstantin Petrovich

He was brought up in a family of teachers. At the age of 8 months, he was transported by his parents to Kazakhstan , where he lived up to 8 years ^[1] . He graduated from Palanskaya high school (the village of Palanka in the Uman district of Cherkasy region) with a gold medal. In 1986, he became a laureate of the Pavel Tychyna Republican Literary Prize “Solar Clarinets” for his poetic translation of “Words on Igor's Campaign” in Ukrainian. In the same year he entered the Faculty of History of Chernivtsi State University named after Y. Fedkovich . After the first course he was drafted into the army. He served in the Soviet Army in the Turkestan Military District (strategic aviation). In 1989 - upon his return from the army - he joined in social activities. He was a member of the People's Rukh of Ukraine , the Ukrainian Helsinki Union, one of the active participants in the student movement (Ukrainian Student Union) and co-chairman of the Ukrainian Youth Union of Bukovina. For participation in an unauthorized rally in October 1989, he was arrested, which led to the first student strike in the USSR initiated by the Komsomol organization and the leadership of Chernivtsi University. As a result of the 3-day strike, the authorities canceled the previous decision to arrest K. Bondarenko, S. Soltus and V. Starik.

In 1990 he moved to Lviv. In 1994 he graduated from the Faculty of History of Ivan Franko Lviv State University , majoring in the history of international relations. During his studies, he began to work - for a long time he collaborated with the Lviv branch of the M. Grushevsky Institute of Ukrainian Archeography and Source Studies of the National Academy of Sciences of Ukraine (under the leadership of Professor Yaroslav Dashkevich ), worked in the archives of Lviv, Kiev, Minsk, Moscow and Warsaw, the main research topic is the activities of nationalist organizations in the 20-40s of the XX century. In March 1997, he defended his dissertation “The Organizational Organizations of the Ukrainian National Nationalists at the front of the other hour of the Other Holy Communities (1938-1945): the military and political aspects” ^[2] ; has a Ph.D. in historical sciences ^[3] . After graduation, he taught at the Lviv Polytechnic ^[2] .

He participated in the creation of the New Wave Center for Political Studies (Lviv), in a number of political projects ( People's Democratic Party , Litvin People’s Bloc , Reform and Order Party, Pora Civil Party ) ^[3] . He was a member of the public councils under the President, speaker of the Verkhovna Rada, and the Ministry of Foreign Affairs ^[3] . Since October 2002, he was director of the Expert Process Research Center ^[4] . In August 2004, he headed the Kiev Institute of National Strategy ^[1] .

He headed the politics department of the Lviv newspaper Postup ^[3] . As a journalist, he collaborated with the newspapers Zerkalo Nedeli , Facts and Comments , Kiev Telegraph , Internet publications Ukrainska Pravda , Obozrevatel, and others ^[3] . He was the author and presenter of the program on "Public Radio". The author of articles in periodicals and about 50 scientific papers ^[3] .

In the parliamentary elections of 2002, he advised Viktor Yushchenko ’s Our Ukraine bloc ^[4] . In the presidential election of 2004, he said, he collaborated with “Donetsk, but not with Yanukovych ” ^[4] . Judging by the publications in the press, he really collaborated with Eduard Prutnik in the framework of the For-Um and Public Dialogue projects, as well as with Zinovy ​​Kulik , who created an alternative center of influence on V. Yanukovych. After the death of Kulik, Bondarenko together with Stanislav Belkovsky created the National Strategy Institute in Ukraine, which Bondarenko headed until August 2005. In the 2006 parliamentary campaign, political strategist of the People’s Bloc Vladimir Litvin ^{[4] [5]} . In 2006-2007 - Advisor to the Minister of Labor and Social Policy of Ukraine M. Papiev , a member of public councils at a number of ministries. In the 2007 election, he collaborated with the Yulia Tymoshenko Bloc . In March 2008, the speaker Arseniy Yatsenyuk appointed him as his freelance adviser ^[1] . He left the team of Yatsenyuk after the arrival of Vladimir Granovsky ^[2] and Russian political strategists Timofey Sergeytsev , Dmitry Kulikov and Iskander Valitov. In 2008 he headed the editorial board of the newspaper “ Left Bank ”, created with the money of Dnepropetrovsk businessmen involved in alcohol and metallurgy ^[2] . In 2010, he resigned from the shareholders of the newspaper.

In 2010-2011 he was deputy of Sergey Tigipko in the party "Strong Ukraine". In August 2011, he expressed his disagreement with Tigipko regarding the merger of the Strong Ukraine party with the Party of Regions . He refused to join the Party of Regions. In March 2011, announced the establishment of the Institute of Ukrainian Politics and headed the institute (in 2015, announced the withdrawal from the cofounders). Since 2012, he has been the head of the Ukrainian Politics Foundation.

Author of the books “Atlantes and Caryatids from under the President’s Roof” (2000) about Leonid Kuchma and his entourage, “BYuT System or Yushchenko-Timoshenko Bloc” (2004), “Leonid Kuchma: a portrait against the backdrop of the era” (2007), “Profile Ukrainians” (t.1) (2007), “Leonid Kuchma” (2009), “History in Profile” (2012) ^[1] .

Married, has three children.

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