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On March 21, international experts from the EU project \"Support to Regional Development in Ukraine\" met with the head of the main department of industry and infrastructure development of the Volyn Regional State Administration, Petro Hotsaliuk.
On March 21, Deputy Minister for Emergency Situations and Protection of the Population from the Consequences of the Chornobyl Catastrophe Anatoliy Medvid presented the keys to new apartments to 19 families of Chornobyl invalids and reserve officers of the Armed Forces.
Practically all domestic beer producers will raise prices for their own products.

Finance Minister Viktor Pynzenyk forecasts a significant increase in the gross domestic product indicator in March 2006 compared to March of last year. \n \nHe stated this to journalists on Wednesday, reports UNIAN.
While on a working visit to the Volyn region, the Prime Minister of Ukraine, leader of the "Our Ukraine" bloc Yuriy Yekhanurov visited the long-unfinished mine No. 10 in Novovolynsk, talked with coal miners, and in Lutsk met with heads of district state administrations and heads of regional enterprises.

On March 4, the concept of the program of the "Our Ukraine" bloc – "Volyn, which we are building" – was presented in Volyn. The main theses of the program were announced by a member of the presidium of the NSNS, head of the Volyn Oblast State Administration, Volodymyr Bondar.
The business environment of the Volyn region is 98% unprepared for dialogue with the authorities. This conclusion was voiced at a meeting of the Lutsk Press Club of Reforms, held on the initiative of the Institute of Competitive Society and dedicated to monitoring the regulatory policy of the region.
In January, the average wage decreased by 15.2% compared to December to 864.91 hryvnias per month. This was reported by the State Statistics Committee.

The State Property Fund is lobbying for a shareholders' meeting of NPK "Halychyna." It will take place on February 28. At the meeting, the SPF hopes to receive dividends on the state's 25% stake.
Representatives of the economic service of the Embassy of the Federal Republic of Germany, headed by the Delegate of German Industry in Ukraine, Karin Rau, were on a working visit to Volyn. The guests met with the head of the regional state administration, Volodymyr Bondar.