On Tuesday, April 12, the volume of US dollar sales on the interbank foreign exchange market increased by 42.4 million dollars compared to April 11 - to 151.9 million dollars. This is stated in a report by the National Bank, reports "Ukrainian News".

There is probably no greater outrage against the peasant than not allowing him access to the market for selling agricultural products. Behind those ubiquitous buyers-up who have tightly seized the meat rows at the markets, the rural man cannot get through.

In March, oil transit through Ukraine increased by 12.8% compared to February to 3,140 thousand tons, reports "Ukrainian News". \n \nDnipro oil pipelines increased oil transit by 23.5% to 1,256 thousand tons. The "Druzhba" pipeline also increased transit by 6.6% to 1,884 thousand tons.

In March, real gross product increased by 5.2% compared to March of last year to 29,292 million hryvnias. \n \nThis was reported to "Ukrainian News" by the State Statistics Committee. \n \nIn January-March, GDP increased by 5.4% compared to January-March 2004 to 79,356 million hryvnias.

The Lutsk Automobile Plant continues to maintain high production rates. In March, 1,905 VAZ-brand automobiles rolled off the assembly line. Once again, the model lineup is led by VAZ-2107 automobiles – 1,080 vehicles produced, model 21043 – 690 vehicles, model 21213 – 134 vehicles, and model 2106 – 1 automobile.

In Lutsk, at the Lesya Ukrainka Regional Drama Theater, a solemn award ceremony was held for the laureates of the first Volyn independent award for highest professional and civic achievements, "Person of the Year of the Volyn Region 2004.

The city mayor is concerned about the state of filling the city budget. And especially the budget-forming one – the personal income tax, which the city treasury is short of by almost 2 million hryvnias. According to forecasts, revenues from this tax should have increased by 20%, since wages have grown significantly.

On April 11, First Deputy Head of the Volyn Regional State Administration Bohdan Shyba held an operational meeting where issues of local budget implementation, the progress of spring field work, repayment of wage arrears, payments for consumed energy resources, and the work of the region's industrial complex were…

There will be no underground passage in the center of Lutsk. The investor does not want to invest his own funds in a project regarding which they cannot decide whether the city needs it or not. This was discussed today at a press club meeting in the Lutsk city hall.

On April 6, a conference "Government-Business-Partners" took place in Lutsk. It was planned to consider the key factors of economic development of Volyn, investment projects, improvement of the tax system, innovative development of the region's enterprises, and more.