Viktor Bondar

Viktor Bondar was born on November 5, 1975, in Dashkivtsi, Vinkivtsi Raion, Ukrainian SSR of the Soviet Union.

From March 1996 to September 2000 worked as legal adviser to financial-industrial group "Sigma" (Kharkov), Deputy Director of the European Development Fund (Kharkiv), Chairman of the JSC "Donetsk Meat" (Donetsk ); Vice-President Ltd. "Ukrainian communications" (Kyiv).

In 1997, he graduated from the Yaroslav the Wise Law Academy of Ukraine, majoring in legal science.

From September 2000 to July 2005 he worked in the Cabinet of Ministers of Ukraine as the head of the Center for Information Resources, Deputy Head of the Department of Information Resources, Head of Development Strategy of Information Resources and Technology Department of internal policy, the Deputy Director of Relations with Parliament of Ukraine and monitoring information.

In 2004, he graduated from Kyiv Polytechnic Institute, majoring in information management system and technologies (computer system analysis).

He received an academic degree (candidate) of juridical sciences (Doctor of Law).

Viktor Vasylyovych Bondar (Ві́ктор Васи́льович Бо́ндар ; Виктор Васильевич Бондарь) is a Ukrainian politician, a member of Ukrainian parliament (Verkhovna Rada) of the 7th and 8th and 9th convocations, the Minister of Transport and Communication of Ukraine (2005–2006), and the Head of Dnipropetrovsk Regional State Administration (2007–2010).

In 2005-2006 he headed the Ministry of Transport and Communications of Ukraine.

From September 2006 to September 2007 he worked as Deputy Head of Presidential Secretariat of Ukraine.

From September 2007 to February 2010 led the Dnipropetrovsk regional state administration.

From July 2008 to April 2009 he was the deputy leader of the party «United Centre», the creation initiative of which belonged to the head of the administration of President Yushchenko — Viktor Baloha.

Having organized the financing of a party cell in the Dnipropetrovsk Oblast as a result of contradictions about the role of the party in the presidential election, I wrote a letter of withdrawal from the party [2].

From 2010 to 2012 he worked as Deputy Chairman of the State Customs Service of Ukraine.

After the First Round of the Ukrainian presidential election, 2010 (when President Yushchenko won only about 5% of the vote) in January 2010, Viktor Bondar began working to the victory of Yulia Tymoshenko, despite the fact that President Viktor Yushchenko actually worked to the victory of Yanukovych, calling on «the orange voter» to vote «against all» («the orange voter » could potentially vote precisely for Tymoshenko, and not for Yanukovych, so Yushchenko's appeal «against all» was precisely harm for Tymoshenko).

February 4, 2010 President Yushchenko fired Viktor Bondar from his post as governor (the Head of the Dnipropetrovsk Regional State Administration) — the decisive Second Round of the Ukrainian presidential election, 2010 took place on February 7.

And Bondar also noted that his dismissal from the post of the Head of the Regional State Administration was absolutely political and connected with the refusal to help Yushchenko-Yanukovych during the presidential elections [3].

May 26, 2010 the Cabinet of Ministers introduced the additional post of the deputy Head of the State Customs Service of Ukraine (already had six deputies) and appointed Viktor Bondar to the post according to the quota of the Communist Party of Ukraine, which was a part of the ruling coalition with the «Party of Regions»[4].

On March 17, 2011, he was appointed Director of the Organization and Management Department under the State Customs Service of Ukraine.

[2] After winning a constituency in Khmelnytsky Oblast in 2012 he was elected into the Ukrainian parliament Verkhovna Rada as an independent candidate.

Once in parliament, he joined the Party of Regions faction.

In 2012 he was elected Deputy of the Parliament of Ukraine.

On February 19, 2014, Vikor Bondar left the Party of Regions faction.

He stated he made his decision after The Security Service of Ukraine in Khmelnytsky Oblast fired guns at Euromaidan protesters.

After retiring, Viktor Bondar with other members of parliament founded a new parliament faction Sovereign European Ukraine.

In October of 2014 Ukrainian parliamentary election, Bondar was re-elected into the Ukrainian parliament as a non-partisan after winning a single-member districts seat in Starokostiantyniv with 18.61% of the votes.

Within parliament, he joined the parliamentary group Revival.

In 2014 he was elected Deputy of the Parliament of Ukraine.

Since June 5, 2015, Victor Bondar has been the chairman of the political party Revival.

On June 5, 2015, it was decided that this faction, group of the party "Revival," would be the parliamentary wing of the Revival party.

Bondar was elected Revival party chairman.

Beginning in 2015, he ist the head of the Party «Vidrodzhennya» and of the deputy group «Vidrodzhennya».

On September 5, 2017, he became the head of the parliamentary group of the Revival party.

In September 2017, Victor Bondar became the head of the parliamentary group of the party "Revival" in the Parliament of Ukraine.

After the 2019 Ukrainian parliamentary election Bondar became co-faction leader of the parliamentary group "For the Future".

Since July 2022 non-factional People's Deputy of Ukraine.

In the 2019 Ukrainian parliamentary election Bondar was re-elected again as an independent candidate in districts 191, with a meager margin.

In parliament he became co-faction leader of the parliamentary group "For the Future", consisting of 23 parliamentarians.

Since July 2022 non-factional People's Deputy of Ukraine

Viktor Bondar became a presidential candidate in 2019.

In the 2019 Ukrainian parliamentary election Bondar was re-elected again as an independent candidate in districts 191, with a meager margin.[18] In parliament he became co-faction leader of the parliamentary group "For the Future", consisting of 23 parliamentarians.[3] Since July 2022 non-factional People's Deputy of Ukraine