Talk:Olena Bondarenko (Party of Regions politician)

Very low standard article

The article on Olena A. Bondarenko [21sth of February 2014] in several details fails to meet the quality standards to be expecte from Wikipedia.

Questionable and unverified information

Article says ”As a result her visa was cancelled and she was banned from entering the United States again”. However, she herself questions that this is i the case, [web page in Gazeta.ua]. The article should point to something that makes it probably that this is why she has lost the visa opportunity - if indeed she has lost it. If the US has made her loose the opportunity, the source should be US state departemtn or similar credible source.

Serioius, undocumented claims about Bondarenko and the police

The article then claims that, quote ”Bondarenko has been the topic of increased concern with regards to human rights in Ukraine”. Why has there been concern about her with regard to human rights?

The article uses the wording ”murdered by the police”. However, Bondarenko in the article that is given as source for the claim - see footnote 17, suggests that they are not murdered but accidentally killed because they were located at a hotspot. Wikipedia can reported that police is accussed of murder, perhaps, but is should not take for good that police has commited murders. Especially since it is common knowledge and that police may, willingly or unwillingly kill as part of their job.

The articles states, quote: “Bondarenko was one of the parties suspected of contributing to the mass murder in Kiev which occurred February 20-21, 2014.” What does this sentence even mean? ”One of the parties”? Was Bondarenko a party? She is member of a party - the Regions Party. In what way can she herself be ”one of the parties”?

The article claims that, quote: ”A new law proposed by Svyatoslav Piskun, former Prosecutor General of Ukraine, temporarily amends the constitution to qualify Bondarenko and other accused parties for execution if found guilty.[18]” The source at footnote 18 shows that there is no such law. And the fact that someone has proposed such a law, how is that relevant to Bondarenko? The sentence is very bad English and irrelvant. The source article (see footnote 18) does not include the name Bondarenko, and it is therefore unclear why the Wikipedia article brings it in.

Politicised, emotional language

In connection with the ”murdered by police” claim, the article talks about ”the peaceful protests in Kiev”. Please replace ”peaceful protests” with something more neutral. The very subject of this article, Bondarenko, does not agree that the protests were peaceful. An there are numerous, easy available news reports that, although containing peaceful elements, the protest consisted of many elements that was unpeacful. There are even news reportst that claim that forces associated with the protested performed killings.

In the following sentence, the article uses the expression ”Bondarenko coldly responded”. Does Wikipedia have access to Bonderenko’s brain or feelings? Or is this text written by someone who thinks Bondarenko is guilty? Further more, the source of the claim (again, see footnote 17) merely states that Bondarenko claimed ”that the press treated her rudely and left”.

The use of the heading ”Pending Death Sentence” and the wording ”the mass murder in Kiev”. Even if Verhovna Rada (parliament of Ukraine) would sanction such a wording, Wikipedia is supposed to be neutral. There are many observers that would question this description of the events, especially since killings is reported to have taken part on both sides but also for other reasons related to arguments of law enforcment.

Distorted name of Elena Anatolyevna Bondarenko

Ms. Bondarenko is born in Donezk Oblast, and native Russian speaker. Her name is Еле́на Анато́льевна Бондаре́нко. The "Ukrainization" of her name in an international encyclopedy following Ukrainian nationalistic politics is highly POV and unacceptable — Preceding unsigned comment added by 217.231.130.78 (talk) 13:54, 15 September 2014 (UTC)