Preparation for Independence Day and City Day are no less important issues than preparation for the heating season – the city authorities assess the implementation of landscaping works by activity.

On July 5, at an operational meeting, Lutsk mayor Anton Kryvytskyi ordered the collection of mutilated streetlights, benches, windows, etc., and to hold an exhibition of vandalism, – reported the own correspondent of the Western Information Corporation.

Members of the "Lutsk European" faction in the Lutsk City Council are outraged by the practice of officials of the Lutsk City Executive Committee disregarding compliance with the law. This especially applies to officials dealing with the housing and communal services block of issues.

Volyn roads are the best in Western Ukraine thanks to Yushchenko. At least, this is what the head of the Volyn Regional State Administration, Volodymyr Bondar, believes. He stated this on July 4 at a regular staff meeting at the Regional State Administration.

On July 4, at the weekly operational meeting at the Volyn Regional State Administration, its head Volodymyr Bondar introduced to the regional officials their new colleague Andriy Lomaha. Mr. Lomaha is currently officially the acting head of the Department of International Cooperation and European Integration.

The governor of Volyn, Volodymyr Bondar, resigned his powers as a deputy of the Verkhovna Rada of Ukraine more than three weeks ago. He personally announced this on Monday at a staff meeting in the regional state administration.

Ukrainian Ruslan Ponomariov became the winner of the Yukhym Heller Memorial rapid chess tournament. At the competition, which took place in Odesa, Ponomariov scored 7.5 points out of 9. \n \nSecond and third places were shared by Austrian Valerii Beim and Ukrainian Yurii Drozdovskyi - 6.5 each.

The highest level of annual inflation (relative to the corresponding period of the previous year) among the CIS countries in May 2005 was recorded in Ukraine, where it stood at 14%, according to the materials of the Interstate Statistical Committee of the Commonwealth.

Ukrainian Tetyana Perebiynis and Australian Paul Hanley lost in the final of the mixed doubles at the Wimbledon tennis tournament. On Wimbledon's centre court, Paul and Tetyana lost in two sets to India's Mahesh Bhupathi and France's Marie Pierce - 4:6, 2:6.

By order of the Ministry of Education and Science of Ukraine dated 01.07.2005, Doctor of Biological Sciences, Professor Ihor Yaroslavovych Kotsan was appointed rector of Lesya Ukrainka Volyn State University. This was reported to "Lutsk Investment" by the press center of VDU.