Oleksandr Chaly is not just a longtime supporter of Ukrainian neutrality and an opponent of joining NATO. He is a participant in an impressive list of scandals, which makes his participation in the negotiating group of Ukraine and Russia on the end of hostilities, at least incomprehensible.. It is reported by "

“On February 14, 2020, he was at the center of a scandal at the Munich Security Conference, signing 12 steps together with the Russian pro-government center to strengthen the security of Ukraine. We only note that in. 12 referred to the “launch of a new national dialogue on identity”, which should take into account the views, in particular, of Russia and Hungary on “the topics of history, national memory, language, identity and experience of minorities”. The plan also spoke about the lifting of sanctions against Russia to fulfill Minsk, the normalization of EU-Russia relations, the annexation of Crimea was not mentioned, ”the newspaper writes..

This document, in addition to Chaly himself, was also signed by his “colleague” Vasily Filipchuk, who in 2017 proposed recognizing Crimea as a disputed territory, postponing questions of its ownership for 20 years, and now officially consider the occupying authorities in Crimea legitimate, and Sevastopol in general.

In 2020, Chaly joined the July 16 Initiative. This group stated:.

“The “war party” is becoming more and more aggressive, which blackmails society with the help of radical actions, biased media, primitive interpretations and pseudo-intellectual prophecies.. Attempts to publicly discuss a common vision of the country’s future, to resolve the conflict in the Donbass and to return Crimea, meet its aggressive resistance… It seems that they want to replace tolerance, multilingualism, and multiculturalism inherent in Ukraine with political egoism, radicalism and neo-militarism.”; “Those who have not built anything have no moral right to demolish the monuments of the past” and much more.

Signatures under this \; further long-term colleague of Sergei Levochkin - Andrey Ermolaev; Akhmetov channel host Tigran Martirosyan; odious Marina Stavniychuk, deputy head of the presidential administration under Yanukovych; Regionals Oleg Zarubinsky, Vladimir Seminozhenko, Vasily Marmazov; Medvedchuk's sing-alongs Ruslan Bizyaev and other defendants in the "

A natural question arises - what does such a character do as part of one of, perhaps, the most important negotiating delegations and missions in our modern history

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Earlier, Secretary of State Anthony Blinken said that the United States has no evidence that the negotiations between Ukraine and Russia are moving in an effective way, primarily because Washington does not see "