[4][5] Tabachnyk is among former Ukrainian officials who have had their assets frozen by EU and is wanted in Ukraine for embezzlement and abuse of office.

In 1994 he became the head of the committee to elect Leonid Kuchma as president of Ukraine where he was accused of falsification of sociological data.

[4] In 1996 he was accused of influencing peddling the Supreme Court regarding the death penalty given to a terrorist action perpetrated by a Russian national in Simferopol.

started to collect signatures in support of the dismissal of Education and Science Minister Dmytro Tabachnyk.

“He had to promise the president to hide under lock and key his personal views and anti-Ukrainian statements and strictly follow the education policy approved by the parliament and the Cabinet of Ministers.

[21] Tabachnyk dismissed these campaigns against him as “witch hunts”, stating “If they don’t like my articles, they should turn to the editors who published them.”[21] At same moment rectors of some leading Ukrainian colleges and universities, intellectual and cultural leaders of Ukraine applied to the President and Prime Minister of Ukraine, the chairman of the Supreme Rada, in support of Dmitry Tabachnyk.

[22] On 20 March 2010, the Ukrainian national television channel Inter made live sociological interrogation at prime time, asking respondents to answer a question if they are supporting Tabachnyk in position of Science and education minister or against him.

[29] A new bill was registered the same day; "We'll do that until this man leaves Ukrainian education" Our Ukraine-People's Self-Defense faction member Viacheslav Kyrylenko stated.

[30] In March 2010 Tabachnyk had stated that Ukrainian history textbooks contained "simply false" information and announced his intention to rewrite them.

[30] Tabachnyk was placed at number 11 on the electoral list of Party of Regions during the 2012 Ukrainian parliamentary election.

[34] His property, including five plots and half of an apartment in Kyiv, were seized by the Security Service of Ukraine (SBU) in January 2023.

They added that he carried out Russia's tasks of "reformatting" the educational and medical industries in the occupied territories to meet the needs of the aggressor country".

In a 2009 article for the Russian newspaper Izvestia, Tabachnyk wrote: “Halychany (western Ukrainians) practically don’t have anything in common with the people of Great Ukraine, not in mentality, not in religion, not in linguistics, not in the political arena” “We have different enemies and different allies.

Furthermore, our allies and even brothers are their enemies, and their ‘heroes’ (Stepan Bandera, Roman Shukhevych) for us are killers, traitors and abettors of Hitler’s executioners.”[21] Tabachnyk also denies that the Holodomor was a genocide,[39] considering it an invention of foreign historians for political motives.

[41] Tabachnyk is married to Tatiana Nazarova, an actress of the Lesya Ukrainka National Academic Theater of Russian Drama.