In Volyn, criminal cases are beginning to be opened against high-ranking officials who violated election legislation and exceeded their official powers. In total, the prosecutor's office of Volyn region is handling the review of more than a hundred appeals from people's deputies concerning pressure on voters, demands to hand over absentee certificates, and illegal campaigning. The vast majority of the people's deputies' appeals were refused criminal case initiation, but now these refusal materials are being thoroughly reviewed in the regional prosecutor's office apparatus. And in three cases, proceedings have already been opened. This concerns primarily the notoriously infamous attack on a polling station in the town of Tsuman, from which almost 2,000 ballots and absentee certificates were stolen. On December 9, a criminal case was opened against the head of the Volodymyr-Volynskyi inter-district police department, Chornopyskyi. He is charged with violating two articles of the Criminal Code. According to regional prosecutor Andrii Hil, the prosecutor's office checked the facts submitted in the people's deputy's appeal and established that the district department head gave subordinates instructions to collect absentee certificates. Audio recordings made during a meeting at the head of the Lutsk district department are also currently being studied. He also demanded that police officers hand over absentee certificates. However, regarding illegal campaigning by officials for one of the candidates, no cases have been opened. The prosecutor's office says that not a single instance of such campaigning was properly recorded in a protocol. Another aspect of the Volyn prosecutor's office's activity these days is its response to decisions of the regional and district councils during the days of the Orange Revolution. The prosecutor's office has already protested the regional council's decision to create executive bodies of the regional council. As for the expression of no confidence in the region's chief police officer, there is so far no question of recognizing this decision as illegal.