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Former world champion among professionals Vitali Klitschko has been elected honorary president of the Boxing Federation of Ukraine. This decision was made by an extraordinary reporting and election conference of the FBU.

In this way, the CEC responded to the appeal of the Head of AMoRe, Mykhailo Shelep, with a request to grant permission to the VRYPO "Association of Young Reformers (AMoRe)" to have official observers during the elections of people's deputies of Ukraine on March 26, 2006, in the territory of Volyn Oblast.
The scandal surrounding the privatization of part of the premises of the communal enterprise "Lutsk Children's Music School No. 1" flared up with renewed force on December 23.
On December 22, during a session meeting of the Volyn Regional Council of the fourth convocation, deputies supported the proposal of the council chairman Vasyl Dmytruk to keep the general composition of the regional council, which is to be elected on March 26, 2006, at 80 people.
During yesterday's session of the Lutsk City Council, after debates, the deputies did not adopt a decision to increase the deputy corps to 60 people. Thus, even after the 2006 elections, the city council will have 45 deputies. This was reported on December 22 by the Western Information Corporation's own correspondent.
The Prince Cup 2005 youth tournament, held in Key Biscayne, Florida, USA, ended with a triumph for Ukrainian tennis.
The director of the Volyn Silk Combine, Oleksandr Kropyva, reported that the additional agreement will specify conditions regulating the fulfillment of investment obligations by both the enterprise and the SPF. "Basically, this concerns the repayment of wage arrears and debts to the budget," he says.

On December 20, at the "Rava-Ruska-Khrebenne" checkpoint (Lviv region, Ukrainian-Polish border), Polish harcerze officially handed over the Bethlehem fire to members of the National Scout Organization of Ukraine (plastuny). This was reported by the press service of the State Customs Service of Ukraine.
On December 19, at the First inter-party congress of the Civic Block "PORA"-PRP, the electoral list of candidates for people's deputies of Ukraine was approved. The list contains 370 candidates, with the quota of each of the participating parties of the block being 50% of the electoral list.
Volyn Regional State Administration, member of the NSNS (People's Union "Our Ukraine") Volodymyr Bondar regarding his refusal to run for parliament and his candidacy for the regional council, in particular stated: "I think that I will go to the regional council if my fellow party members express their trust in me.