The 23rd session of the Volyn Regional Council decided to increase the forest cover of the region's territory by 2015 to the generally accepted in Europe scientifically substantiated optimal level – 36%.

The head of the Volyn Regional Administration has been recognized at the state level as the most successful regional manager. He heads the list of the best managerial executives compiled by the Cabinet of Ministers based on statistical data.

This time the scientific session was held after the scientists from Kyiv, Lviv, and other cities had become acquainted with Lutsk Technical University in a picturesque corner of Volyn, at the "Prolisok" sanatorium, which made it possible, as they say, to combine business with pleasure — to discuss scientific problems…

The faction of the URP "Sobor" of the Yulia Tymoshenko Bloc has been registered in the Volyn Regional Council, consisting of five deputies, reported the own correspondent of the Western Information Corporation.

Volodymyr-Volynskyi Pedagogical College named after Ahatanhel Krymskyi is being reorganized into a pedagogical college and will soon train bachelors. Such a decision was made by the 23rd session of the Volyn Regional Council on October 18, – reported the own correspondent of the Western Information Corporation.

In Zaporizhzhia, a traffic police inspector tried to eat four hundred-dollar bills when SBU and prosecutor's office employees "caught" him receiving a bribe, reports "Channel 5". \n \nThe traffic policeman demanded a bribe for registering a car with a tampered VIN number, which may be wanted.

A strangled newborn boy was found at the landfill in Lyubeshiv. According to the Public Relations Center of the Volyn Regional Department of the Ministry of Internal Affairs, a criminal case has been opened over this fact. Law enforcement officers are searching for the baby's mother.

On October 18, at a regular session, deputies of the Volyn Regional Council, by a majority of votes, rejected the protest of the Prosecutor of the Volyn Region Mykola Frantovsky regarding their decision of August 12 this year to recognize the Ukrainian Insurgent Army as a belligerent party and its soldiers as veterans…

At the team world championship, the Ukrainian chess team, which is the current champion of this tournament, will compete with its full fighting lineup. The team includes the same six chess players who won four years ago at the world championship.

At the initiative of the Volyn Regional Organization of the political party "People's Union Our Ukraine," a round table was held on October 15 to discuss the Anti-Corruption Program "No to Corruption!", which was announced at the beginning of October by the Presidium of the Party Council.