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An regional conference of the People's Agrarian Party of Ukraine (NAPU) took place in Lutsk. Its delegates were members of this party from all districts of the region.
On February 6, a reporting and election conference of the Ukrainian People's Party was held in the city of Kovel. By secret ballot, the delegates, by a majority of votes, supported the candidacy of Kovel Mayor Yaroslav SHEVCHUK for the position of head of the city organization.
Hedgehog and Grass Snake of Ukrainian politics create coalition "Barbed Wire".
The head of the Volyn Regional State Administration, Volodymyr Bondar, has decided on his deputies. According to informed sources, he should have only three of them.
The newly appointed governor of Volyn, Volodymyr Bondar, will most likely make public the composition of the new management team no earlier than Wednesday-Thursday. Over the weekend, a meeting of the regional Committee of National Salvation was held, which has already decided on personnel appointments.
Volodymyr Bondar began his tenure as head of the Volyn Regional State Administration according to an old Ukrainian custom – with the consecration of the office and the entire premises where the new leadership of the region will work.
Ukraine President Viktor Yushchenko has signed a decree appointing Yulia Tymoshenko Prime Minister of Ukraine.
President of Ukraine Viktor Yushchenko spoke before the people's deputies, proposing his vision of the activity of the Government of Ukraine. \nFirst of all, he named the things that his Cabinet of Ministers will not do.
Today, President of Ukraine Viktor Yushchenko dismissed the governor of the Volyn region, Hero of Ukraine Frantsuz Anatoliy Yosypovych (GUFAY). This is reported by "Obkom" with reference to the president's press service.
Ukraine President Viktor Yushchenko was committed to a three-year reform program already agreed with Brussels, aimed at putting Ukraine — the largest country wholly in Europe — on the path to Western-style democracy, he declared in an interview with The Times.