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Foreign Minister Borys Tarasyuk told journalists this in response to their questions.
Foreign Minister Borys Tarasyuk told journalists this in response to their questions.
Citizens up to the age of 40 will be accepted for contract service in the Armed Forces; previously, the maximum age for acceptance for contract service was 30 years.\n\nThis is stated in the amendments to the decree of November 7, 2001 No.
The Volyn Eparchy of the Kyiv Patriarchate celebrates the 40th anniversary of Bishop Mykhailo of Lutsk and Volyn.
On May 9, a Victory parade and a memorial rally took place in Lutsk near the Memorial of Glory. The heads of the Volyn Regional State Administration, Volodymyr Bondar, and the Regional Council, Vasyl Dmytruk, and Lutsk city mayor Bohdan Shyba called on veterans to reconcile.
The small anti-submarine ship "Lutsk" of the Ukrainian Black Sea Fleet, over which the Lutsk City Council exercises patronage, will for the first time in the history of the Ministry of Internal Affairs of Ukraine participate in the anti-terrorist operation "Active Endeavour" in the Mediterranean Sea.
To the 20th anniversary of the accident at the Chornobyl Nuclear Power Plant, a memorial evening titled "Chornobyl – Bells of Heroism and Sorrow" was held at the Volyn Regional Academic Ukrainian Music and Drama Theater named after Taras Shevchenko.
On April 20, at a press conference in Lutsk, the Minister of Education and Science of Ukraine Stanislav Nikolayenko stated: "The moral and spiritual crisis, in my opinion, is the root cause of all the troubles in the state. When we come to a city or enter a village – everything is closed, everything is dark.
Exactly one year has passed since the conclave of cardinals elected as Pope the first German in the last thousand years.

The Board of the Department of Culture and Tourism of the Volyn Regional State Administration has published an appeal inviting all concerned people, admirers of the native word, connoisseurs of books and owners of home libraries to take an active part in the regional campaign "Let's Help the Village Library!