According to the main statistics department in the Volyn region, in the first quarter of this year the average salary of Volyn residents was 354 hryvnias. The earnings indicator remains one of the lowest in Ukraine (an even lower average salary is only in the Ternopil and Khmelnytskyi regions).

During the forest month, 86 new landscaped green areas appeared in Volyn, local press reports. \nAmong them are the UCossack GloryFpark in Lutsk district, Gagarin Park in Shatsk, and Polish-Ukrainian friendship gardens in Lyuboml district.

By its inspection, the state enterprise "Volynstandartmetrolohiya" established that only the service station of OJSC "LuAZ" has all the grounds for conducting technical inspection of vehicles.

A project for the construction of a glass container plant has been developed in Lutsk. \nAs reported by the chief engineer of the Lutsk Glass Plant, Heorhiy Troyanchuk, there is a significant need for such an enterprise in Volyn.

According to preliminary data, in April more than 1700 VAZs rolled off the main assembly line of LuAZ, and since the beginning of the year - almost 6500 units. This is 1500 cars more than in the 4 months of last year.

The sales volume for 2003 in the PAKKO self-service wholesale network amounted to about 200 million hryvnias. At the same time, the number of customers in 2003 was recorded at the level of 400 thousand people.

Employees of the Volyn Regional Directorate of the SBU exposed a criminal group that was engaged in trafficking Ukrainian girls.

During 2004, it is planned to open 15 new supermarkets of the "Vopak" chain in the Volyn, Rivne, Khmelnytskyi, and Ivano-Frankivsk regions in Western and Central Ukraine.

As of April 23 of the current year, the general fund of budgets of all levels received 195.9 million UAH on a cumulative basis from the beginning of the year, which constitutes 97.6% of the projected amount.

A working meeting of the head of the regional council, Vasyl Dmytruk, with the leadership of the Rivne Geological Exploration Expedition was held at the regional council, the regional council's press service reported.