The Verkhovna Rada (Parliament) of Ukraine appointed Mr Valeriy Patskan as Chairman of the Accounting Chamber of Ukraine March 15 in the village of Zolotareve in the Khust District of Zakarpattia Oblast (Ukraine) he graduated from Uzhgorod State University He graduated from the Interregional Academy of Personnel Management where he earned a Master of Banking qualification Patskan holds a PhD in Law and became an Honored Lawyer of Ukraine in 2017 Patskan began his career as a Legal Department Chief Specialist in the Antimonopoly Committee of Ukraine’s Zakarpattia Regional Territorial Office located in Perechyn He served as Legal Counsel for the Perechynsky Forestry Plant from 2000-2001 then moved to the Augustine Voloshin Zakarpattia Institute of Interregional Academy of Personnel Management in Uzhhorod Acting Assistant Professor and Deputy Head of the Department of Law he was the Deputy Director and Acting Director for the PrivatBank’s Uzhhorod Branch followed by working as the Director of Index-Bank’s Zakarpattia Branch in Uzhhorod He was the Director General of Carat Motor in Perechyn He was elected as a Ukrainian Member of Parliament in December 2012 where he headed the parliamentary committee of the seventh convocation on human rights national minorities and interethnic relations Patskan also served as chairman of the subcommittee on relations with Ukrainians living abroad two great Supreme Audit Institutions (SAIs) as “The Impacts of Aging Populations on National Governments” seminar got underway at the United States (U.S.) Government Accountability Office (GAO) headquarters… which has a tradition dating back more than a thousand years celebrated its 158th Anniversary this year with a heavy heart as the entire world lives under the shadow of the COVID-19 Pandemic The pandemic created a “new normal” forcing Supreme Audit Institutions (SAIs) and governments alike to… The International Organization of Supreme Audit Institutions (INTOSAI) presented the Jörg Kandutsch Award at the… Maksym has not known his biological parents since he was born He tried to find them for a very long time to no avail Thanks to an educational orphanage he found a new family that helped him forge his own path in life We met up with Maksym in Perechyn last summer He again came here for a couple of weeks to visit his nearest and dearest He has been living and working in the USA for the last 10 years he still does not know who his parents are After that he was sent to the Vynohradiv orphanage At the age of 6 he was sent to the Perechyn educational orphanage that does not exist any longer when at the age of 16 he decided to find his parents Maksym learned about his childhood from female employees of the orphanage where he grew up “From 1 to 5 grade of the Perechyn educational orphanage I was a bad schoolboy I was so bad that I even got myself into fights with teachers Then Iryna Ivanivna Sudakova started teaching at the orphanage as if hinting at the fact that this occurrence changes his life Maksym has shown a knack for creativity since he was a kid He would easily learn poems and lyrics by heart Maksym’s new music teacher took notice of this aptitude of his My recollection is so vivid; I still remember her inviting us to her home to sing Christmas carols We had learned some of them during our lessons at the orphanage At her home I got acquainted with her husband She then offered me to come to her home every weekend I was not the only one from the orphanage whom Iryna Ivanivna would not only invite into her home Their children are my brothers and sisters he did not have any big plans for the future Having finished the educational orphanages in Perechyn and Velykyi Bereznyi and acquired the profession of a car mechanic Maksym started pursuing it without much success “One day Iryna Ivanivna told me I should try to go to college I remember my mom testing my knowledge of Ukrainian and other subjects We then decided I should try to pass the entrance exams to the law department of the Uzhhorod national university When he was a student he started making a little extra money by providing legal advice to other representatives of the Romani people especially the folks from the orphanage where he grew up At that time Maksym hit upon the idea to set up an organization that would deal with these issues Following advice of one of his family’s friends Andriy Vyshniak (who at that time had already gained much experience in welfare work) Maksym established a charitable foundation ‘Opika’ Soon he started conceiving projects that were to be implemented: “Our foundation would deal with the issues regarding the Romani people all the ideas of its activities came from my life since I had been active in helping orphans adapt themselves to the life outside the orphanage No one of those who come out of the orphanage can cook we implemented a project that implied teaching children from the orphanage how to cook Within the framework of another project children learned housekeeping and how to grow vegetables After graduation one of Maksym’s teachers offered him to do an audition at the Zakarpattian oblast drama theatre The theater’s management was actively recruiting people at that period so the following 10 years I worked as an actor at our theater” Sheila Slamp came to Perechyn as a Peace Corps volunteer She happened to see Maksym on the stage of the local cultural center as soon as she arrived She laughed the hardest at what she saw on the stage I did not speak a word in English back then But after the performance we went for dinner together I was later told that at the dinner Sheila said she would want to live her life with someone who could make her laugh and she would want to die laughing Next time I saw her at my mom’s birthday party After the party I was the one who offered Sheila to walk her home At some point later we moved together in Perechyn” 10 years ago Maksym and Sheila decided to get married and moved to the USA “I have to admit that I was not planning to move there My first several months in the USA were a complete nightmare I found it hard adapting myself to the life there I spent another several years learning English at a school for immigrants Maksym works as a sous chef at the Carlos Rosario International Charter School for Adult Immigrants It was there that he acquired his profession Maksym was offered to cook lunch for 4 Presidents of the USA who visited the school while he was a student there About 10% of his monthly income (about 10 thousand UAH) Maksym has been sending to the charitable foundation ‘Opika’ that he founded in order to help foster children his wife and his friends have been helping the Ukrainian army for all these 7 years We love doing that and we know how to do that I won’t tell you how much money we donate to the army but I can say that we are and will be helping it” Although he has now settled down in the USA he annually spends nearly a month in Zakarpattia He says he misses them and that nothing in the whole world will replace the communication with his nearest and dearest Evelina Hurnytska and Dmytro Tuzhanskyi, exclusively for  InfoPost.Media *** This material has won the journalist competition supported by the Romani program of the International Renaissance Foundation The Government of Ukraine has included the industrial park “Friendly Windtechnology” (Perechin Zakarpattya region) with an area of 16.5 hectares in the Register of industrial parks the press service of the Ministry of Economy reported The corresponding decision was made at a government meeting on Tuesday According to the concept of the new industrial park 745 new jobs should be created in the processing industry professional-scientific and technical activities Predominantly local enterprises will be engaged in mechanical engineering and metalworking “The creation of new industrial parks is aimed at developing the processing industry creating new jobs and filling local budgets,” the press service quoted Economy Minister Yulia Sviridenko as saying thus in the Register today there are 65 industrial parks last year Kramatorsk Heavy Machine Tool Plant on the site of which produced wind turbines company “Furlander Windtechnology” decided to relocate from Kramatorsk to Perechyn Friendly Wind Technology LLC (FWT) was registered in Perechyn in October 2022 with Vladyslav Eremenko as the ultimate beneficiary and manager According to the local press, the construction of a new workshop of the enterprise “Friendly Wind Technology” is engaged in the design and production of components for wind power plants All news and diagrams placed on this Web site is made for internal use Its reproduction or distribution in any form are welcome in case of placing a direct hyperlink to a source Reproduction or distribution of information which contains Interfax-Ukraine as a source is prohibited without the written permission from the Interfax-Ukraine news agency Photoes placed on this site 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