Serhiy Shkarlet

Biography Born in 1972 in Kokand, in the Uzbek Soviet Socialist Republic, Shkarlet's family moved to Nizhyn, in the Ukrainian Soviet Socialist Republic, in 1975 because his father was offered a job there in the defense specialist company . From 1989 until 1995, Shkarlet studied and graduated at Kyiv Polytechnic Institute. In June 2020 Ukrainian media began to accuse Shkarlet of plagiarism in his scientific works. In 2020 Shkarlet claimed that he had joined the Party of Regions "by order from the regional state administration."

On 25 June 2020 Shkarlet was assigned as acting Minister of Education and Science. Beforehand, he had served as Deputy Minister of Education and Science for European Integration. Prior to Shkarlet's assignment as minister, significant volumes of plagiarism were discovered in his scientific publications.

On 17 December 2020, the Verkhovna Rada (Ukraine's national parliament) appointed Shkarlet as Minister of Education and Science. Afterwards Skarlet filed a lawsuit against the National Agency for Quality Assurance of Higher Education to the District Administrative Court of the City of Kyiv, in which he demanded to "declare the actions of the defendant to be illegal in establishing the presence of textual borrowings without reference to the source" in a number of his scientific works. The court of first instance ruled in favor of the official.

Parliament dismissed Shkarlet as minister on 20 March 2023.