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At the V.M. Glushkov Institute of Cybernetics of the National Academy of Sciences of Ukraine in Kyiv, installation has been completed of the most powerful supercomputer in the CIS, which has been named SKIT ("supercomputer for the implementation of information technologies").
The seventh session of the Verkhovna Rada of Ukraine has opened. After the opening of the session, people's deputy of Ukraine Olena Bondarenko, who entered the VR on the list of Viktor Yushchenko's bloc "Our Ukraine," took the oath. \nand joined this faction. This was announced by speaker Volodymyr Lytvyn.

In February, prices for petroleum products may rise in Ukraine. This is the opinion of market participants. Experts of OJSC "Galnaftogaz" assume that fuel prices may increase by an average of 3%-5% by the end of the month.
Employees of notary offices in Zhytomyr region have stopped processing real estate purchase and sale agreements. They still cannot even imagine how to apply the provisions of the Law "On Personal Income Tax," which came into force at the beginning of the year, report "Fakty, ICTV."
The Government of the Russian Federation from February 1 is lowering the rate of the export customs duty on crude oil and petroleum products exported from the territory of the Russian Federation outside the borders of the member states of the Customs Union by 18 dollars - to 83 dollars per ton, RIA Novosti reports.
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For the first time in Lutsk this weekend, Taekwon-Do masters competed for the Liubart Cup. Teams from Dnipropetrovsk, Kyiv, the Autonomous Republic of Crimea, the city of Drohobych in Lviv Oblast, and a team from the Rivne city of Sarny came to the Volyn capital for the competition.
The Eurasia Group named Ukrainian President Viktor Yushchenko as one of the world’s leading political figures on the Global Leadership 50, an annual ranking that identifies the top fifty extraordinary individuals whose actions and accomplishments had a profound impact on local, national or international politics in…
Five trucks with apples were detained by employees of the Yahodyn customs office (Ukrainian-Polish border).

In terms of the rate of repayment of wage arrears, Volyn has made it into the top three oblasts that are doing this the fastest. Only Chernivtsi and Rivne oblasts are ahead of us. More than 8 thousand Volyn residents did not receive their earned money, to whom a total of 5.5 million hryvnias was owed.