The Cabinet of Ministers has banned heads of regional state administrations from appointing more than four deputies. This was stated by Prime Minister Yulia Tymoshenko at a press conference on Saturday, according to "Ukrainian News.

Volodymyr Bondar, the newly appointed governor of Volyn, is not listed among his colleagues who were presented today in the regions. The list included the heads of Kharkiv, Zaporizhzhia, Luhansk, Kirovohrad, Poltava, Cherkasy, Chernivtsi, and Vinnytsia oblasts.

Delegates of the 7th extraordinary congress of the People's Party (formerly the People's Agrarian Party of Ukraine - proUA) unanimously decided to dismiss First Deputy Chairman of the Party Mykhailo Hladii, reports a proUA correspondent.

Fifty-nine members of the democratic platform of the People's Democratic Party decided to join the People's Party. This was announced at the seventh extraordinary congress of the NAPU (renamed the People's Party) by member of the NDP democratic platform Serhiy Shevchuk, reports a proUA correspondent.

The People's Agrarian Party of Ukraine will henceforth be called the People's Party. This decision was made by delegates of the seventh extraordinary congress of the organization, reports a correspondent of "proUA". \n \nThe decision on renaming was adopted unanimously.

It seems that all heads of regional state administrations will indeed be presented in the regions by the end of this week. As an informed source told us, yesterday it was planned that this event would take place in Volyn today.

– Volodymyr Nalkovych, what did you feel when you officially heard your surname in the Verkhovna Rada hall as the head of the regional state administration and walked to the "governors' box"?

– It was the end of winter 2001. Then in several regions it was decided to conduct an experiment to completely destroy the opposition, including in Volyn. There were statements by city and district heads in the media who condemned the activities of our party organization.

President Viktor Yushchenko intends to appoint Verkhovna Rada deputy Serhiy Sobolev as the President's permanent representative in the Rada. Yushchenko said this to "Ukrainian News." \n \nThe 43-year-old Sobolev is a member of the "Our Ukraine" faction and is a member of the Rada committee on legal policy.

On February 8, the Volyn Regional Organization of the UNP held a press conference for local media. The main message that representatives of the Ukrainian People's Party wanted to convey to citizens was the thesis that "the process of forming a new management team in Volyn is non-transparent and undemocratic.