Georgy Vasilovich Shchokin (ukr.: Гео́ргій Васи́льович Що́кін) (born May 27, 1954, in Zaporizhzhya is a Ukrainian (of Russian ethnicity) businessman, sociologist, psychologist and a politician. He is also the founder and owner of MAUP (a private college known for its close ties with David Duke and other Holocaust deniers).

Biography

Schokin graduated in 1981 from the Kyiv Pedagogical Institute. He is the founder and owner of the Interregional Academy of Personnel Management. Shchokin heads the Ukrainian "Miloserdiye" Foundation. He is a part owner and vice-president of the two vanity presses — International Biographical Centre (UK) and American Biographical Institute that have been described as scam operations.