Illegal migrants were detained again in Volyn. During the joint preventive operation "Kordon-2005", information was received that a group of illegal migrants was hiding near the village of Siltsia Hirnykivski in the Ratniv district. A mobile group led by Captain Serhii Kren went out to comb this territory.

Yesterday in Lutsk, a presentation of the newly formed all-Ukrainian public organization "National Alliance" took place for representatives of local mass media.

The Antimonopoly Committee of Ukraine has granted permission to LLC "Kontynium-Trust-Company" (Lutsk), whose main activity is brokerage operations with securities, to acquire shares of CJSC "Zhytomyrmolokoprodukt" (Zhytomyr), which operates in the market of milk procurement and processing, which will ensure exceeding…

Ukraine President Viktor Yushchenko was committed to a three-year reform program already agreed with Brussels, aimed at putting Ukraine — the largest country wholly in Europe — on the path to Western-style democracy, he declared in an interview with The Times.

The International Federation of Football History and Statistics (IFFHS) has published its next club ranking of the 350 best clubs on the planet for January 2005. For Ukrainian clubs, compared with the TOP-350 of a month ago, practically nothing has changed.

High activity of non-residents on the domestic government bonds market and the need, burdensome for the monetary authorities, to curb inflation give grounds for maintaining the trend toward strengthening of the hryvnia exchange rate against the dollar. This is what Ukrainian bankers interviewed by news agencies say.

As Volodymyr Hunchyk noted, on January 18 of this year the Cabinet of Ministers of Ukraine approved by Resolution No.

Former head of the National Bank and former chief of Viktor Yanukovych's election campaign, Serhiy Tihipko, has divorced his wife and intends to remarry. Sources in the banker's circle told "Tribuna" about this. \n \nTihipko's new chosen one is Kyiv entrepreneur Viktoriya Lapotovska.

*Students of higher educational institutions of Volyn of I-II accreditation levels will receive 70 hryvnias monthly starting from the first of January.

In January, the gold and foreign exchange reserves of the National Bank of Ukraine grew by 5.6%, or by 533.71 million dollars, amounting to 10,058.61 million dollars as of January 31. \n \nThis is stated in an NBU announcement.