Information from NBU representatives regarding the possible disappearance of 1 and 2 kopiyka coins caused an ambiguous reaction from citizens and, as it turned out, from the ... National Bank itself.

A terrible tragedy occurred in the village of Popovychi, in the Kovel district. In her own garden, 71-year-old Nina T. settled accounts with life in a terrible way — she doused herself with gasoline and set herself on fire...

Employees of the international vehicle checkpoint "Yahodyn," together with border guards, discovered and seized a shipment of studio music equipment worth over 59 thousand hryvnias.

Information about holding "private" conversations with student activists has been received from three universities in Volyn to the monitoring committee "Student Chooses Freely." Moreover, the conversations were held with several people on the same day.

Today, October 13, at 9 o'clock in the morning, mass inspections by tax authorities began at gas stations in Rivne Oblast. Having checked the cash registers, the tax officials orally prohibited gas station operators from dispensing fuel, citing the need to inventory its remaining stocks.

On Sunday, October 17, at 14.00, a meeting with the head of the OUN, the last president of Ukraine in exile, Mykola Plaviuk, will be held at the House of Technology (Lutsk, Kryvyi Val St., 30a). \nThe topic of the meeting: "Ukrainian nationalists and the 2004 Ukrainian presidential election" \n

Today, October 12, 2004, Andriy Bokoch, according to the summons he received, with a completely clear conscience headed to the Lutsk City Department of the UMVS of Ukraine to give testimony in the case of intimidation that took place on the night of September 30 to October 1 of this year.

On October 12, representatives of the Volyn organizations of the Youth Coalition "Our Ukraine" and "Clean Ukraine" met with the rector of the Lutsk Biotechnical Institute, Hryhoriy Stetsenko (a member of the SDPU(o)).

The first so-called world championship between people and computers has ended in Spanish Bilbao. Ukrainians Serhiy Karyakin and Ruslan Ponomariov, as well as Bulgarian Veselin Topalov, were crushed by the machines "Junior", "Fritz 8" and "Hydra" with a score of 8:3.5.

Today, a Mi-8 helicopter with a Ukrainian crew crashed in the northern province of Afghanistan, Badakhshan. In addition to three crew members, there were also five passengers on board. Fortunately, no one was injured as a result of the incident.