The history of CJSC “Volyn Silk Combine” has its roots in the 80s of the last century, when the Lutsk Silk Combine was built. At the dawn of its activity, it was considered one of the largest textile enterprises of the former USSR.

In two days, doctors from the All-Ukrainian Charitable Medical Foundation of Oleksandr Shalimov examined and provided consultations to more than 500 patients in the central district hospitals of the villages of Stara Vyzhivka and Ratne.

On October 12, Senior Adviser to the Swedish Ministry of Foreign Affairs Torgny Hinnemo met with Deputy Head of the Volyn Regional State Administration Vasyl Baitsym.

President Viktor Yushchenko appointed Yuriy Polyachenko as Minister of Health of Ukraine. \n \nThis is stated in Yushchenko's decree, the presidential press service reported on Wednesday. \n \nPolyachenko was born on February 20, 1963 in Kyiv, and in 1986 he graduated from the Kyiv Medical Institute.

The Ukrainian national team managed to take revenge on the Japanese team for a defeat three years earlier. Back then, the hosts celebrated victory in Osaka. In Kyiv, however, the Ukrainian team won with a minimal score of 1:0, thanks to a goal in the 90th minute from a penalty by Andriy Husin.

On October 12, on the occasion of marking the 63rd anniversary of the creation of the UPA, a memorial rally was held in the village of Farynky in the Kamin-Kashyrskyi district at the site of a battle where, according to eyewitness accounts, 68 insurgents died.

Participants in the parliamentary hearings "Decentralization of Power in Ukraine.

This is Mr. Hinnemo's first visit to Lutsk. Before that, he had only been to the capital and to Eastern Ukraine, and that was back in 2002.

Since the beginning of the year, almost 2,500 criminal cases related to theft of private property have been opened in Volyn, and only half of them have been solved.

The Hydrometeorological Center forecasts a gross harvest of winter crops in 2006 of no more than 10 million tons, whereas the forecast for the current year was twice as large, Ukrainian News reports.