On Friday, October 15, about 4 thousand Lutsk residents came out to a rally in support of Viktor Yanukovych. The rally began at 17:00 outside the walls of the Volyn Regional State Administration and lasted half an hour. The rally was led by the mayor of Lutsk, and outside working hours also by the secretary of the regional committee of the SDPU(o), Anton Kryvytskyi. The floor was given to Volyn party bosses "for Yanukovych," young people, women, and a university professor. In particular, Hanna Maslai in her speech focused attention on the fact "that a series of terrorist attacks cannot but concern us" and "we want peace and stability," reminding those present about the terrorist attack in Beslan. Extremely interesting, from the point of view of the sincerity of what was said, was the speech of the chief "regional" of Volyn, Ivan Lutsyk. Thus, he stated that "while conducting campaign work, 'Regions of Ukraine' act only within the framework of current legislation" and "condemn dirty technologies and calls for unrest." From everything it is evident that Mr. Lutsyk was being disingenuous before the people. After all, the majority of those present at the rally were employees of budget-funded sectors, the Volyn Regional State Administration, and the Lutsk City Executive Committee. Let us assume that on Friday the workday ends earlier than usual – at 17:00. But how could thousands of conscientious employees be in two places at once – finishing the work week at their workplaces and watching the start of the rally? Unless the Volyn headquarters of Yanukovych invented a device for instant teleportation, which can be doubted. Moreover, participants in the rally in private conversations directly spoke about an order from their management to be present at the rally. "Is it mandatory to be at the rally?" – "Whoever wants to keep working at ***, for that person – it's mandatory," – approximately such dialogues were heard this morning in many institutions of the city. These are the unconventional methods by which the Volyn headquarters of Yanukovych campaigns for its candidate. …At the rally waved flags of the SDPU(o), Regions of Ukraine, Labor Ukraine, and flags with the symbols of "Choice-2004," among which two banners with slogans "Volyn – for Yanukovych" and "Youth – for Yanukovych" were interspersed. Small groups of people were rereading campaign materials promptly distributed by activists of "Clean Ukraine" and talking about their own affairs. Law enforcement officers were openly bored, and only an SBU video camera was working in its usual mode. The rally ended. Within 10 minutes the square in front of the regional state administration was empty…