Today, February 9, in Kyiv at around 15:00, Hero of Ukraine, People's Artist of Ukraine, laureate of the Taras Shevchenko National Prize of Ukraine Raisa Kyrychenko died in her 62nd year. \n \nDeath occurred as a result of a severe kidney disease. Kyrychenko had been treated for the illness for a long time.

The head of the Volyn Regional Council, Vasyl Dmytruk, met with representatives of the Ukrainian-Swiss Program "Improving Perinatal Services in Ukraine," namely with project manager Martin Rab, coordinator of the Swiss Bureau Oksana Novoseletska, and office head Andriy Solodarenko.

American Association of political consultants has recognized Viktor Yushchenko’s election campaign as “the best international campaign of the year” and gave it the highest annual prize ‘Polly’.

The head of the regional council, Vasyl Dmytruk, met with representatives of the Ukrainian-Swiss Program "Improving Perinatal Services in Ukraine," in particular, with project manager Martin Rab, coordinator of the Swiss bureau Oksana Novoseletska, and office head Andriy Solodarenko.

Lutsk Mayor Anton Kryvytskyi believes that the unused reserve for the city's development lies not in financial and material resources, but in civic activity and initiative.

In Volyn, public organizations and schoolchildren of the region organized a survey aimed at establishing the exact number of Volyn white and black storks, as well as the area of their distribution.

How to encourage the private sector to solve social problems and improve cooperation between business and public organizations – these and other issues were discussed at the presentation of the project "Development of Cooperation between Business and Public Organizations in the Volyn Region" by the Volyn Youth Rights…

In the fifth week of 2005 (as of February 7), according to data from the Ukrainian Influenza Center, the incidence rate in 10 control cities compared to the previous week increased by 28.8% (in the 4th week – from January 24 to 30 – the number of cases was 46,856).

The State Fund for the Promotion of Youth Housing Construction plans to provide 4-5 times more youth loans in 2005 than in 2004. This was stated by the fund's board chairman Valeriy Omelchuk at a press conference on Tuesday, reports "LIHABiznesInform".

Following the results of January, the unique audience of the Ukrainian Internet amounted to 5,545,929 people. These are people who accessed the Internet at least once during the last 31 days. Compared to December, the number of unique network users decreased by 359,536 people or by 6.09%, reports "Podrobnosti".