[2] In 2005, Karmazin said in an interview to the Boulevard newspaper that he was against Prime Minister Viktor Yanukovych, and that he won't live in one country with him.

In the same interview, he told how a certain superior force came down on him, giving him instructions for his future activities.

[4][5] In the 2006 Ukrainian local elections he failed to win a seat in the Odesa city council (for the Yuriy Karmazin Bloc).

94 in Kyiv Oblast he did take part as an independent candidate, but he failed to win.

[2] Karmazin did participate in the 2014 Ukrainian parliamentary election as he headed the list of the party Green Planet.

[7] In November 2015 he joined the leadership of the "Far-right forces[8]" movement, the organizer of an anti-government protest in February 2016, whose headquarters were located in "Kazatsky" hotel.

[14] In January 2018, Karmazin held a press conference providing documents allegedly confirming the relationship between the ICU company and the American financier, deputy chairman of the inaugural committee of Donald Trump, Elliott Broidy.

The company ICU denied this information and put the law on Karmazin for libel.