Interregional Academy of Personnel Management

Interregional Academy of Personnel Management was established in 1989 as a non-governmental higher education and research institution focused on management and business issues. The first rector and president was Georgy Shchokin.{{Cite web |date=2013-09-12 |title=Міжрегіональна академія управління персоналом (МАУП) |url=https://osvita.ua/vnz/guide/91/ |access-date=2024-03-12 |website=Освіта.UA |language=uk}}

The MAUP has published more than 300 study plans and manuals and 200 books for educational programs. The Personnel magazine is registered by The Presidium of the State Accreditation Committee as a supplement to economics, law, psychology, pedagogy, philosophy, and social and political sciences. MAUP's editions have been recommended for use by The Ministry of Education of Ukraine.

The MAUP asserts that "Under the results of Sophiya Kyivska, the Rating of Higher Education Establishments in Ukraine (2000), and International Open Popularity and Quality Rating (1998–2000) IRAPM was recognized as the best non-state higher education establishment in Ukraine."[http://www.iapm.edu.ua/inst_s/avr/en-inf.html Presidential University of the Inter-Regional Academy of Personnel Management (IRAPM) Enrolls Foreign Students to the International Preparatory Institute (IPI) License AA № 005574] {{webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20060523202036/http://www.iapm.edu.ua/inst_s/avr/en-inf.html |date=2006-05-23 }}

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In early and mid-2000s, the MAUP became embroiled in controversies because of evident antisemitism in their publications and conferences. The MAUP maintains that their activities can be classified only as anti-Zionism, but the Anti-Defamation League (ADL) has referred to[http://www.adl.org/main_Anti_Semitism_International/maup_ukraine.htm Ukraine University of Hate. A backgrounder on MAUP (Interregional Academy of Personnel Management)] {{webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120515065808/http://www.adl.org/main_Anti_Semitism_International/maup_ukraine.htm |date=2012-05-15 }} (ADL) November 3, 2006 traditional antisemitic propaganda traits that have no connection to Zionism, such as religious antisemitism or solely blaming the Jews for the Russian October Revolution or the Holodomor of 1932–1933 (as a part of the Judeo-Bolshevist antisemitic conspiracy theory).

During 6 October 2004 hearing of the Annual Report on International Religious Freedom 2004 and Designations of Countries of Particular Concern before the Committee on International Relations of the United States Congress, the MAUP was called "[t]he most troubling development" in Ukraine and it was asserted that it receives "significant funding from Arab and Muslim states".[http://commdocs.house.gov/committees/intlrel/hfa96357.000/hfa96357_0.HTM 2005 Annual Report on International Religious Freedom 2004 and Designations of Countries of Particular Concern]. Hearing Before the Committee on International Relations House of Representatives. One Hundred Eighth Congress, Second Session. October 6, 2004. Serial No. 108–154

On 14–19 April 2005 the MAUP weekly newspaper Personnel Plus published an open letter to President Yushchenko, Ukrainian Verkhovna Rada Speaker Volodymyr Lytvyn and Supreme Court of Ukraine Chief Justice Malyarenko calling for a parliamentary investigation into the "criminal activities of organized Jewry in Ukraine". The newspaper claimed that the letter was signed by more than a hundred scientific, civic, and political leaders.[http://www.ncsj.org/AuxPages/120105MAUP.shtml#NCSJ Ukrainian President Viktor Yushchenko Condemns Anti-Semitic Academy "MAUP"] {{webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20060209082324/http://ncsj.org/AuxPages/120105MAUP.shtml |date=2006-02-09 }} (NCSJ) December 06, 2005

On 3 June the MAUP sponsored a one-day conference entitled "Zionism As the Biggest Threat to Modern Civilization" attended by the former Knights of the Ku Klux Klan Grand Wizard David Duke of the United States.[http://www.maup.com.ua/news/news.php?idn=166 Діалог цивілізацій: сіонізм – найбільша загроза сучасній цивілізації] {{webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20051110183646/http://www.maup.com.ua/news/news.php?idn=166 |date=2005-11-10 }} (MAUP) June 6, 2005 The Kyiv Post newspaper called the gathering "a disgusting orgy of racism and hatred". In August 2005, the MAUP awarded Duke with a Kandidat Nauk degree in History.[http://www.adl.org/learn/extremism_in_america_updates/individuals/david_duke/david_duke_20051103.htm David Duke awarded doctorate by Ukrainian university; continues anti-Semitic attacks] {{webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20060217005240/http://www.adl.org/learn/extremism_in_america_updates/individuals/david_duke/david_duke_20051103.htm |date=2006-02-17 }} (ADL) November 3, 2005

After the Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad's widespread misquote, "wipe Israel off the map" (when his real quote was "Israel is an unnatural creature, it will not survive"){{Cite web|url=http://thelede.blogs.nytimes.com/2012/04/17/israeli-minister-agrees-ahmadinejad-never-said-israel-must-be-wiped-off-the-map/|title = Israeli Minister Agrees Ahmadinejad Never Said Israel 'Must be Wiped off the Map'|date = 17 April 2012}} had evoked international condemnations, on 4 November 2005 the MAUP issued "a decisive protest against large-scale campaign, organized by Zionists, against the Islamic Republic of Iran and its President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad […] where he quoted the words of the Iranian spiritual leader Ayatollah Khomeini about future death of Israel and the USA".

In his 22 November statement, Georgy Shchokin, the MAUP's President who also heads the "International Personnel Academy" (IPA) and the Ukrainian Conservative Party (UCP), combined traditional Christian antisemitism with what has been defined as "new antisemitism", and failed to mention that the UN General Assembly Resolution 3379 of 1975 (equating Zionism and racism) has been revoked in 1991 by the UNGA Resolution 4686:

"We'd like to remind that the Living God Jesus Christ said to Jews two thousand years ago: 'Your father is a devil!' … Zionism in 1975 was acknowledged by General Assembly of UN as the form of racism and race discrimination, that, in the opinion of the absolute majority of modern Europeans, makes the most threat to modern civilization. Israel is the artificially created state (classic totalitarian type). ... Their end is known, and only the God's true will rescue all of us. We are not afraid, as God always together with his children!"

On 1 December 2005, the MAUP held a conference "The Jewish-Bolshevik Revolution of 1917 – the Source of the Red Terrorism and the Starvation of Ukraine".[http://www.antisemitism.org.il/frontend/english/viewarticle.asp?id=16286&itemtype=1 Ukraine – An Antisemitic Conference at the MAUP Academy]{{dead link|date=November 2017 |bot=InternetArchiveBot |fix-attempted=yes }} (antisemitism.org.il) December 1, 2005{{cite journal |last=Grynevych |first=Liudmyla |author-link=:uk:Гриневич Людмила Володимирівна |title=The Present State of Ukrainian Historiography on the Holodomor and Prospects for Its Development |journal=The Harriman Review |volume=16 |number=2 |pages=10–20 |date=2008 |doi=10.7916/d8-enqm-hy61 |publisher=Harriman Institute}}{{rp|17}}

In the March 2006 issue of the Personnel Plus, an article[http://www.personal-plus.net/article.php?ida=453 "Murder Is Unveiled, the Murderer Is Unknown?"] by Yaroslav Oros (Personnel Plus, March 2006 issue. No. 9/160) revived false blood libel accusations from the infamous 1911 Beilis Trial by mischaracterizing the verdict as the jury recognizing the case as ritual murder by persons unknown even though it found Beilis himself not guilty, when in fact the defense had entirely rested on demolishing the concept of Jewish ritual murder.Blood Accusation: The Strange History of the Beiliss Case, Samuel, Maurice, Alfred A. Knopf, 1966.[http://ldn-knigi.lib.ru/JUDAICA/Navet.htm Царская Россия и дело Бейлиса, Tager, A., Moscow, 1934]Scapegoat on Trial: The Story of Mendel Beilis – The Autobiography of Mendel Beilis the Defendant in the Notorious 1912 Blood Libel in Kiev, Beilis, Mendel, Introd. & Ed. By Shari Schwartz, CIS, New York, 1992, {{ISBN|1-56062-166-4}} A week earlier, MAUP leaders had visited the grave of Andrei Yuschinsky, the Christian boy who had been the victim in the case.[http://jta.org/page_view_breaking_story.asp?intid=1573 Ukrainian school raises ritual murder charge] {{webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20070930204136/http://jta.org/page_view_breaking_story.asp?intid=1573 |date=2007-09-30 }} (JTA)[http://www.antisemitism.org.il/frontend/english/viewarticle.asp?id=16778&itemtype=1 Ukraine – Blood Libel at the MAUP University]{{dead link|date=November 2017 |bot=InternetArchiveBot |fix-attempted=yes }} (antisemitism.org.il) February 22, 2006

At a conference held at the MAUP Academy in Kyiv, the heads of the MAUP accused "Rothschild's Soldiers" of the genocide of the Ukrainian people.[http://www.antisemitism.org.il/frontend/english/viewarticle.asp?id=17599&itemtype=1 Ukraine – Antisemitic Statements at an Academic Conference at the MAUP Institute]{{dead link|date=November 2017 |bot=InternetArchiveBot |fix-attempted=yes }} (antisemitism.org.il) May 30, 2006

On 15 August 2006, an article on the MAUP's website denounced the Bnai Brith as "the Jewish Gestapo".[http://www.antisemitism.org.il/frontend/english/viewarticle.asp?id=18659&itemtype=1 Ukraine – An Article Denouncing the Bnai Brith Organization on the MAUP Academy's Internet Site]{{dead link|date=November 2017 |bot=InternetArchiveBot |fix-attempted=yes }} (antisemitism.org.il) August 15, 2006

On 21 November 2005, the Simon Wiesenthal Center issued a public statement to Ukraine's government, requesting they denounce and revoke MAUP's accreditation.Simon Wiesenthal Center. News Release. 21 November 2005. [http://www.wiesenthal.com/site/apps/nl/content2.asp?c=fwLYKnN8LzH&b=245494&ct=1616509 Retrieved: 28 November 2006] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20060313205350/http://www.wiesenthal.com/site/apps/nl/content2.asp?c=fwLYKnN8LzH&b=245494&ct=1616509 |date=13 March 2006 }}

On 5 December the President of the Ukrainian American Coordinating Council (UACC) Ihor Gawdiak issued a statement "to convey our profound shock and distress concerning the horrific statement made on 4 November by the heads of the International Academy of Manpower Management (MAUP) in support of the Iranian President's statement that Israel should be wiped off the map."[http://www.ncsj.org/AuxPages/120105MAUP.shtml#USUKR2 Statement by Ihor Gawdiak] {{webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20060209082324/http://ncsj.org/AuxPages/120105MAUP.shtml |date=2006-02-09 }}, President of the Ukrainian American Coordinating Council. December 5, 2005{{in lang|ru}} [http://jn.com.ua/Antisemitism/amer_1512.html MAUP Leadership Statements Shock Ukrainians] {{webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20060213151924/http://www.jn.com.ua/Antisemitism/amer_1512.html |date=2006-02-13 }} (Jewish News) May 07, 2007

On the same day, the office of the President of Ukraine Viktor Yushchenko issued a statement which said in part:

"The Head of State is worried that anti-Semitism spreads throughout Ukraine. He condemned the Interregional Academy of Personnel Management (IAPM) as an institution that systematically publishes anti-Semitic articles in its publication Personnel. Yushchenko said he had left the supervisory council of the journal to protest against this inhumane policy. He called on professors of the IAPM to respect citizens of all nationalities and confessions and to "stop rousing national hatred."[http://www.president.gov.ua/en/news/data/1_4728.html President condemns anti-Semitism] {{webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20061020003931/http://www.president.gov.ua/en/news/data/1_4728.html |date=2006-10-20 }} Press office of President Victor Yushchenko of Ukraine. December 5, 2005{{in lang|uk}} [http://www.korespondent.net/main/44973/ Ющенко засуджує МАУП за антисемітизм - Yushchenko condemns MAUP for antisemitism] {{webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20061013083150/http://www.korespondent.net/main/44973/ |date=2006-10-13 }} (Кореспондент.net) December 5, 2005

Yushchenko once sat on MAUP's board, and Foreign Minister of Ukraine Borys Tarasyuk was honorary director of one of MAUP's subdivisions until 2005. Yushchenko resigned from MAUP several years ago, following its criticism by Jewish organizations.[http://jamestown.org/edm/article.php?article_id=2370640 Xenophobes to Contest Seats in Ukrainian Parliament] {{webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20060322001803/http://www.jamestown.org/edm/article.php?article_id=2370640 |date=2006-03-22 }} by Oleg Varfolomeyev (The Jamestown Foundation) January 9, 2006

On 6 December, the ADL urged the US House of Representatives to delay approval of Ukraine's graduation from the Jackson-Vanik amendment. The ADL National Director Abraham Foxman wrote: "We expect more from democratic states than we do from totalitarian ones. This year alone has seen a steep increase in acts of violence and vandalism against Jews across Ukraine. There have been attempts to ban everything from Jewish organizations to Jewish holy texts. The university MAUP [...] actively promotes anti-Semitism of the most vicious kind."[http://www.adl.org/PresRele/ASInt_13/4851_13.htm Press Release: ADL Welcomes Ukraine's Strong Condemnation of University Fomenting Anti-Semitism] {{webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20061115233402/http://www.adl.org/PresRele/ASInt_13/4851_13.htm |date=2006-11-15 }} (ADL) January 25, 2006

On 7 December, the US-Ukraine Foundation (USUF) condemned "[...] the November 4, 2005 statements by the Interregional Academy of Personnel Management (MAUP) as hateful, virulent and having no place in the public discourse in Ukraine or anywhere else. MAUP's anti-Semitic statements supporting the Iranian President's recent call for Israel to be 'wiped off the map' was an affront to decency that provoked the unequivocal international condemnation it deserved."{{Cite web |url=http://www.usukraine.org/news.shtml |title=U.S.-Ukraine Foundation |access-date=2006-01-12 |archive-date=2006-06-14 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20060614191530/http://usukraine.org/news.shtml |url-status=dead }}

Speaking on national television on 23 January 2006, Foreign Minister of Ukraine Borys Tarasyuk "strongly condemned the anti-Semitic actions of MAUP University" and confirmed that "having exhausted all efforts to convince MAUP leaders to drop their unlawful and wrongful actions" he broke off contacts with University a year ago. In its press release, the Ministry of Education and Science of Ukraine accused MAUP of breaking Ukrainian law, noting "persistent incompliance with requirements of state licensing rules for universities, failure to abide with legally binding decisions of the State Accreditation Commission", qualifying it as "a general negligence of law and a desire to pursue activities inconsistent with the status of Higher Education Institute in Ukraine".

This move was welcomed by the UACC,[http://www.brama.com/news/press/2006/01/060127uacc_MAUP-condemnation.html Press release: BRAMA, Ukrainian American organization [UACC] gratified by official condemnation of anti-Semitic institution in Ukraine] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20061110123721/http://www.brama.com/news/press/2006/01/060127uacc_MAUP-condemnation.html |date=2006-11-10 }} January 27, 2006 National Coalition Supporting Soviet Jewry,[http://www.ncsj.org/AuxPages/012506MAUP.shtml Ukraine Gov't Condemns MAUP, Calls for Action Against Anti-Semitism] {{webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20061211054343/http://ncsj.org/AuxPages/012506MAUP.shtml |date=2006-12-11 }} (NCSJ) January 25, 2006 the ADL, and other human rights advocates.

The leader of Vaad in Ukraine Joseph Zissels called MAUP "the most influential center of anti-Semitism in the country."[http://www.analitik.org.ua/author/46076f2011c07/ Anti-Semitism in Ukraine] {{webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20070929083459/http://www.analitik.org.ua/author/46076f2011c07/ |date=2007-09-29 }} by Vladimir Matveyev (Analitik – Kiev Center of Political Research and Conflictology) March 29, 2007

The latest rebuke came from Ukraine's High Court which ruled against MAUP as it sought to sue the Jewish Confederation of Ukraine for publishing articles "about MAUP activities directed against the Jewish community and Zionism".[http://www.jta.org/cgi-bin/iowa/breaking/107803.html Ukraine high court dismisses Jewish case] {{webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20080511145251/http://www.jta.org/cgi-bin/iowa/breaking/107803.html |date=2008-05-11 }}, JTA, 31 March 2008.

{{pquote|"I'm a soldier, I'm a colonel, and I'm ordering you to leave!", but I told him that I was not going anywhere because I did not insult him in any way and I was not interrupting the lecture and I'm paying a lot of money to be here. Meanwhile the professor was demaning from the guys "Get this rude girl out of here by force!"{{cite web|url=https://www.facebook.com/polina.kravchenko.56/posts/3061315093942480|website=facebook.com|title=Оригінальний допис одного із учасників конфлікту}}}}

In 2019, a female student accused one of the professors Viktor Kolpakov of openly promoting pro-Russian and anti-Ukrainian narratives during his lecture, including accusing Ukraine of starting the war in Donbas, claiming that Ukrainian language "doesn't exist anymore and won't be needed in Europe", promoting a union with Russia because "this is a strong state with good salaries, and we have a brainless nation" and that Sevastopol "finally has a normal life" after the annexation of Crimea. When the student openly opposed his claims, the professor ordered one of the students to take her out of the lecture hall.{{cite web|url=https://myrotvorets.center/criminal/kolpakov-viktor-mikhajlovich/|website=myrotvorets.center|title=Колпаков Виктор Михайлович / Колпаков Віктор Михайлович / Kolpakov Viktor Mihajlovich}}{{cite web|url=https://wz.lviv.ua/news/397724-viinu-pochala-ukraina-u-kyivskomu-vyshi-rozhorivsia-skandal-cherez-profesora-separatysta|website=wz.lviv.ua|date=2019-09-19|title="Війну почала Україна": у київському виші розгорівся скандал через професора-"сепаратиста"}} Anti-Ukrainian sentiment in the higher educational institution was revealed only after the publication of moral abuse by one of the students on Facebook.{{cite web|url=https://www.obozrevatel.com/ukr/kiyany/vijnu-pochala-ukraina-u-kiivskomu-vuzi-spalahnuv-skandal-cherez-profesora-separatista.htm|website=obozrevatel.com|title="Війну почала Україна": у київському виші спалахнув скандал через професора-"сепаратиста"|date=19 September 2019}}

• David Duke, American politician, Holocaust denier, former Grand Wizard of the Louisiana based Knights of the Ku Klux Klan, and former member of the Louisiana House of Representatives.
• Volodymyr Groysman, former Prime Minister of Ukraine{{in lang|ru}} [http://file.liga.net/person/68990-groysman-vladimir.html Short bio of Volodymyr Groysman], LIGA
• Ilya Kiva, former deputy of Verkhovna Rada of Ukraine tried for treason as of 2022{{Cite news|title=Киві повідомили про підозру у державній зраді|url=https://www.radiosvoboda.org/a/news-venediktova-kyva-pidozra/31738834.html|website=Радіо Свобода|date=6 March 2022 |accessdate=6 March 2022|archive-date=6 March 2022|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20220306144048/https://www.radiosvoboda.org/a/news-venediktova-kyva-pidozra/31738834.html|language=uk |last1=Свобода |first1=Радіо }}
• Zhan Beleniuk, Olympic Gold Medalist and a current deputy of Verkhovna Rada of Ukraine
• Elbrus Tedeyev, Olympic Gold Medalist and former deputy of Verkhovna Rada of Ukraine
• Vasyl Volha, former deputy of Verkhovna Rada of Ukraine accused of treason in 2018{{Cite web|title=Волга Василь Олександрович|url=https://lb.ua/file/person/2717_volga_vasil_oleksandrovich.html|website=LB.ua|date=5 April 2021 |accessdate=27 February 2023|language=uk}}

• Antisemitism in Ukraine
• Racism and discrimination in Ukraine
• History of the Jews in Russia and the Soviet Union
• History of anti-Semitism
• Zionology

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• {{in lang|en}} [https://web.archive.org/web/20070928105251/http://polit-terror.info/pages/2005/bu/Engl_02.pdf Anti-Semitic mood heats up in Ukraine (PDF, June 2005, p.44.)] Section in the "Bulletin of United Social Democratic Party of Ukraine".
• {{in lang|en}} [https://web.archive.org/web/20120515065808/http://www.adl.org/main_Anti_Semitism_International/maup_ukraine.htm Ukraine University Schooling in Anti-Semitism] Report of the Anti-Defamation League NGO
• {{in lang|uk}} [http://www.maup.com.ua/ MAUP official website]
• {{in lang|uk}} [http://personal.in.ua/ Personnel] MAUP publication
• {{in lang|uk}} [http://www.personal-plus.net/ Personnel Plus] MAUP publication
• {{in lang|uk}} [http://www.ria.ua/view.php?id=32787{{dead link|date=December 2017 |bot=InternetArchiveBot |fix-attempted=yes }} Critical analysis of the literature published by MAUP]{{Dead link|date=February 2023 |bot=InternetArchiveBot |fix-attempted=yes }}
• {{in lang|uk}} [https://web.archive.org/web/20051110183646/http://www.maup.com.ua/news/news.php?idn=166 Zionism As the Biggest Threat to Modern Civilization] MAUP conference
• {{in lang|uk}} [http://www.personal-plus.net/article.php?ida=287 A plot against MAUP], MAUP's open telegram in the Personnel Plus newspaper
• {{in lang|ru}} [https://web.archive.org/web/20070312132359/http://www.cn.com.ua/N360/resonance/scandal/scandal.html Order at MAUP: Read Racist Literature] by Sergey Kovtunenko at the Stolichnye Novosti
• {{in lang|ru}} [https://web.archive.org/web/20080926175953/http://mignews.com.ua/articles/189248.html MAUP diplomas are not recognized in Poland] at MigNews

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