Director of the Kolkiv Forestry, Oleksandr RYBCHYNSKYI, in the Manevychi district of Volyn region, last week ordered two employees to write resignation letters. The unofficial reason for this was that they had campaigned for President Viktor YUSHCHENKO during the election campaign.

The "Power of the People" coalition and the Party of Industrialists and Entrepreneurs have agreed to support presidential candidate and "Our Ukraine" leader Viktor Yushchenko in the expected second round of the presidential election.

Recently, the well-known breeder, senior research fellow of the Volyn Institute of Agro-Industrial Production, Iryna Ivanivna Maister, received a certificate of authorship issued by the State Service for the Protection of Rights to Plant Varieties for the winter rye variety she created — Iryna.

In the mines of Donetsk region of Ukraine, two miners died under rubble. This was reported to ForUm by the press service of the Ministry of Emergency Situations of Ukraine. \n \nOn Monday in the city of Torez at the "Prohres" mine, a 43-year-old miner died as a result of a rock collapse.

It seems that the current "Shakhtar" is indeed in a playing crisis. The third defeat in the last four matches cannot be regarded as anything other than a failure. How long the way out of the nosedive of Mircea Lucescu's team will be is currently unknown.

The TV channel "Russia" together with the Ukrainian television company "Inter" is finishing filming the New Year musical "The Three Musketeers".

The Verkhovna Rada of Ukraine adopted as a whole the Law of Ukraine "On the Specifics of Privatization of Enterprises of the Oil Refining Industry of Ukraine," - reports a LIGABusinessInform correspondent.

In the Saratov region, the city of Balakovo, a major radiation release occurred at the nuclear power plant. The emergency happened last night.