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Information based on the results of a public opinion survey of Volyn residents conducted by the KIIS "Leon-Analitik" in October 2005. Using a quota sample, 2,173 respondents were surveyed with an evenly proportional distribution across the administrative-territorial units of the oblast.
The 3rd round of the preliminary group stage of the World Handball Championship, which is taking place these days at the venues of St. Petersburg, became a real test for the Ukrainian handball players.

The 36 strongest Volyn billiards masters competed for the title of regional champion in "Moscow Pyramid". \n \nRepresentatives from Lutsk, Kovel, Volodymyr-Volynskyi, Kivertsi, and Liuboml demonstrated their skills in the excellently prepared hall of the "Kniazhyi Dvir" club on nine tables.
Ukrainian Ruslan Ponomariov has advanced to the quarterfinals of the Chess World Cup at the tournament in Khanty-Mansiysk. In the second game of the round of 16, Ponomariov defeated the Dutchman Loek van Wely and won with an overall score of 2:0.
With the onset of the autumn cold snap, the situation that had developed with the gasification of Zaturtsi in Lokachynskyi district began to worry not only the village residents, the head of the settlement council and the gas workers, but also the district leadership.
A regular meeting of the standing commission of the Lutsk City Council on social protection, healthcare, motherhood and childhood was held, at which the current demographic situation in the city was considered. The head of the city executive committee's healthcare department, Fedir Koshel, presented this information.
According to Vasyl Pilan, Yeremieiev's assistant, "he does not know how many shares Yeremieiev's company currently has at its disposal." "To obtain information about the shares, you need to call 'Continium,'" advised Ihor Yeremieiev.
Ukraine has proposed to OAO "Gazprom" a gradual increase in the price of the portion of gas supplied to it.
In response to the decision of the conference of the Horokhiv district party organization of the VO "Batkivshchyna" on self-dissolution and transition to the ranks of the UNP, the bureau of the Volyn regional organization of the VO "Batkivshchyna" distributed a statement in which it called its former leaders traitors.
At the next meeting of the executive committee of the Lutsk City Council, an important medical and social issue was considered – the state of tuberculosis incidence and the progress of implementation of the National Program for Combating Tuberculosis for 2002–2005.