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Having won in the fourth round of the group tournament of the UEFA Cup against French "Rennes", Donetsk "Shakhtar" secured one of the places in the next round of the UEFA Cup. After four games, the miners have collected 9 points and can calmly switch to matches of the Ukrainian championship.

Despite the defeat in the last match of the UEFA Cup group tournament against Romanian "Rapid" and not entirely successful matches in the Ukrainian championship, Donetsk "Shakhtar" continued its upward progress in the ranking of the best clubs on the planet according to the International Federation of Football History…

A critical situation has developed in Ukraine regarding the organization of elections to local self-government bodies.
Leader of the Party of Regions Viktor Yanukovych headed the first five of his party's election list. \n \nAlso in the top five are ombudsman Nina Karpachova, former head of the "Novokramatorsk Machine-Building Plant", deputy Heorhiy Skudar.
Volyn Regional Organization of the "Batkivshchyna" All-Ukrainian Union received 8 seats on the party list to parliament.
In the Radyvyliv district of Rivne region, law enforcement officers detained two escapees from the special unit of the Ostroh psychiatric hospital. One of them was a native of this district.
Structures owned by People's Party member Ihor Yeremeyev may participate in the auction for the sale of the "Privat" package of shares in "Halychyna" amounting to 32.9%. \n \nThis is reported on Thursday by the newspaper "Delo".
As regrettable as it is, this season the team that for the past two years we had placed considerable hopes on in the UEFA Cup draw is leaving it already at the group stage...

17-year-old Victoria Kutusova in the new WTA ranking rose to 76th place and became the number one of Ukrainian women's singles tennis. It should be noted that last week Kutusova won the tournament in French Poitiers and thanks to this rose 19 spots in the ranking.

On November 30, a scientific conference "The Lutsk Holy Trinity Cathedral in the History of Volyn and Ukraine" was held at the Volyn Museum of Local Lore, dedicated to the 250th anniversary of the Cathedral of the Holy Trinity in Lutsk and the 125th anniversary of its consecration as an Orthodox cathedral.