Interregional Academy of Personnel Management (Ukrainian: Міжрегіональна Академія управління персоналом, romanized: Mizhrehionalna Akademiia upravlinnia personalom; shortened as МАУП) is a private higher education institution in Ukraine.
Founded in 1989 as a non-state establishment, the MAUP consists of a preparatory department, a lyceum, a college, institutes, and a postgraduate school and has over 50,000 students in many branches throughout the country.
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.
[6] 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.
[6] 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and failed to mention that the UN General Assembly Resolution 3379 of 1975 (equating Zionism and racism) has been revoked in 1991 by the UNGA Resolution 4686: "We'd like to remind that the Living God Jesus Christ said to Jews two thousand years ago: 'Your father is a devil!'
[10][11]: 17 In the March 2006 issue of the Personnel Plus, an article[12] 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.
[19] On 21 November 2005, the Simon Wiesenthal Center issued a public statement to Ukraine's government, requesting they denounce and revoke MAUP's accreditation.
"[26] 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.
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".
"[32] 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 Donbass, 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.