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On June 13, Deputy Head of the Regional State Administration Volodymyr Karpuk met with a delegation of American schoolchildren (from the city of Kane, Pennsylvania), who are staying in Volyn as part of an international schoolchildren exchange program.
The regional dean of the Volyn Eparchy of the Kyiv Patriarchate, Protopresbyter Ivan Semeniuk, and the senior chaplain of the eparchy, Protopresbyter Oleksandr Bezkorovainy, served a memorial service in one of Lutsk's parks (on Potebni Street), at the site of the shooting of 10,000 girls by NKVD executioners.
On June 9, the first orange issue of "Volyn Newspaper" was published, which became the successor of the bankrupt "Dosvitnya Zorya.
In the Museum of the Volyn Icon, located in the regional center of Volyn, an exhibition entitled "Church Embroidery. Traditions and Modernity" has been on display for more than a month.
50.6% of respondents surveyed by the Oleksandr Razumkov Center for Economic and Political Studies and the Kyiv International Institute of Sociology "completely agree" or "rather agree" with the opinion that Ukraine must join the European Union.
As of June 1, the Ministry of Justice registered: 127 political parties, over 2,000 all-Ukrainian and international public organizations, 192 branches of non-governmental organizations of foreign states in Ukraine, 108 trade unions and their associations, 728 charitable organizations, more than half of them…
Today, June 9, is the feast of the Ascension of the Lord. The Ascension of the Lord is one of the 12 major church feasts and is celebrated on the fortieth day after Easter - the Resurrection of Christ, therefore it always falls on a Thursday.
On June 9, during an operational meeting at the Volyn Regional State Administration, consideration of the implementation of the state and local budgets for the 5 months of 2005 is planned.
In Volyn, some local media outlets on June 7 refused to sign a Memorandum on the basic principles of cooperation between them and the regional administration.
The Lutsk city hall was forced to take an interest-free loan from the regional treasury to pay vacation pay to teachers of the city's general education schools.