*The issue of investment cooperation between Volyn Oblast and Vilnius County of the Republic of Lithuania was the main reason for the meeting in Vilnius of the head of the oblast state administration, Volodymyr Bondar, with representatives of local authorities and business.

The Lutsk Central Park of Culture and Recreation is the only one in Ukraine that has practiced a collective form of management since 1999. The integral property complex covering an area of 60 hectares has been taken on lease. Before that, the park was communal property.

On May 18, the Lutsk city executive committee was picketed by cleaners in orange work uniforms demanding payment of three months' wage arrears, reported the West Information Corporation's own correspondent.

In the list of enterprises with questionable privatization, which was prepared by First Vice Prime Minister Anatoliy Kinakh, four are under the control of Russian structures.

The Verkhovna Rada adopted in the first reading the draft law "On Amendments to the Customs Tariff of Ukraine". This is reported by a LIGABiznesInform correspondent.

The court prematurely revoked the parliamentary powers of the heads of state administrations in Volyn Oblast, Volodymyr Bondar, and in Ternopil Oblast, Ivan Stoiko.

The faction of the People's Party of Ukraine in the Verkhovna Rada of Ukraine intends not to participate in voting for government bills until pressure on its members in the regions is stopped.

Only 15% of Volyn postgraduate students defend their dissertations, 5% of patented inventions find application, and there has been no graduation from doctoral studies with dissertation defense at higher education institutions in the region for 5 years in a row, the Western Information Corporation was told in the…

The international women's tennis tournament "Kyiv Ladies Open" will be held at the tennis courts of the capital's "Antey" sports complex from May 21 to 29. It is held under the auspices of the International Tennis Federation, and the organizer of the competition is the Tennis Federation of Ukraine (FTU).

Ukrainian journalists who write about the work of the Cabinet of Ministers, based on the results of the first hundred days, gave the highest rating to the work of Prime Minister Yulia Tymoshenko and her ministers.