"The 'Polissya TV' studio is being systematically driven to ruin," this statement was made today at a press conference by the studio's creative team.

President Viktor Yushchenko dismissed a number of heads of district state administrations of the Volyn region from their positions by his orders, reports «LIHABiznesInform».

In Lutsk, an extremely severe flood is expected. Hydrometeorologists forecast sudden warming, which will cause rapid snow melting. The temperature at the beginning of March is 5-7 degrees below normal and will remain so for another 10 days. But when the warming comes, the sun will be high.

Delegates of the 13th reporting-and-election conference of the Volyn regional organization of the Social Democratic Party of Ukraine (united) a week ago unanimously elected Oleksiy Shumyk as their leader.

First of all, because the delegates voiced quite a few critical remarks both about the leadership of the regional branch and about the party's central apparatus. They mainly concerned the pre-election presidential campaign, which ended in defeat for the regional members.

The ecological quarter-2005 in Lutsk begins with the citywide campaign "Let's Make the World Clean!!!". It will take place in the regional center of Volyn from March 14 to 19. As part of the event, collection of recyclables, namely waste paper and PET bottles, is being organized at the city's educational institutions.

At the Ivanychi Sugar Plant, several years ago there was an unpleasant incident when, using forged documents, criminals stole a railcar of sugar.

According to national space agency sources, in 2004 Ukrainian carrier rockets accounted for 13 percent of the international market of space launches.

The leadership at the Yahodyn Customs has changed once again. As reported by Svitlana Fedoniuk, senior inspector for public relations and mass media at this customs office, Vitalii Kuchman has been appointed as acting head of customs starting March 1.

Mariupol's "Azovmash" will face the capital's BC "Kyiv" in the quarterfinals of the FIBA EuroLeague tournament. On Wednesday, "Azovmash" won the third match of the playoff series away against the Turkish "Tuborg" with a score of 95:86 and advanced to the 1/4 finals of the tournament, winning the series 2:1.