The reason for his presence is not clear.
Alexander 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 team of Ukraine and Russia on the end of hostilities, at least, incomprehensible. This was reported by NV.
“On February 14, 2020, he was at the center of a scandal at the Munich Security Conference, signing with the Russian pro-government center 12 steps to strengthen Ukraine's security. Note only that paragraph 12 referred to the “launch of a new national dialogue on identity”, which should take into account the views, in particular, Russia and Hungary on “topics of history, national memory, language, identity and experience of minorities.” The plan also mentioned the lifting of sanctions against Russia for the implementation of 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 its membership for 20 years, and now officially considering the occupying authorities in Crimea legitimate, and Sevastopol in general. to offer the Russian Federation for 99 years.
In 2020, Chaly joined the “July 16 initiative”. The group stated:
The “party of war” is becoming more and more aggressive, blackmailing society with radical actions, media engagement, primitive interpretations and pseudo-intellectual prophecies. Attempts to publicly discuss the common vision of the country's future, resolve the conflict in Donbass and return Crimea are met with aggressive resistance. “Those who have not built anything have no moral right to demolish monuments of the past” and much more.
This “document” was signed, in addition to Alexander Chaly himself, by Ruslan Bortnik, an aide to Vadim Kolesnichenko, a Ukrainophobe who fled to Russia; further Sergey Levochkin's long-term colleague – Andrey Ermolaev; Akhmetov's host Tigran Martirosyan; the odious Marina Stavniychuk, Yanukovych's deputy head of the AP; “Regionals” Oleg Zarubinsky, Vladimir Seminozhenko, Vasily Marmazov; Medvedchuk's singers Ruslan Bizyaev and other participants of the “base of hidden PR people” sang.
A natural question arises – what does such a character do in one of perhaps the most important negotiating delegations and missions in our modern history?
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