[3] On 17 December 2020, the Verkhovna Rada (Ukraine's national parliament) appointed Shkarlet as Minister of Education and Science.

[6] In the 2015 Ukrainian local elections Shkarlet unsuccessfully sought re-election, this time on the party list of European Solidarity.

[10][11] On 17 December 2020, the Verkhovna Rada (Ukraine's national parliament) appointed Shkarlet as Minister of Education and Science.

[13][14][15][16][11] The presence of plagiarism in Shkarlet's papers was confirmed by National Agency for Quality Assurance of Higher Education and by three independent international experts from the USA, the Czech Republic and Poland, who analyzed excerpts of works translated into English.

[17][18] 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.