A wild and senseless murder occurred on Tuesday in Volyn. A 56-year-old man killed a young boy with whom he had argued over the price of mushrooms. \nViktor Paramuk (name changed) in the morning gathered a full bucket of white mushrooms and went to sell the forest gifts on the Lyuboml-Shatsk highway.

The health condition of the head of the Volyn Regional State Administration, Anatoliy Frantsuz, is gradually improving. According to some data, he is still outside the region and is being treated in Feofaniya.

It is painful when parents lose their children. In Kivertsy, a young couple recently had to bury their two-year-old daughter. \nThe tragedy occurred in the morning. Nastya accidentally touched what seemed to be a well-insulated cable that hung near her bed. The two-year-old child received fatal injuries and died.

As of August 1, 2004, the revenue part of the general fund of local budgets (excluding inter-budgetary transfers) received 9,794.8 million UAH, or 61.8% of the plan. Compared to the corresponding period last year, revenues increased by 72.7 million UAH, or by 0.7%.

Today in Lutsk, a press conference was held regarding the police repressions that have been taking place for several weeks now in Sumy and the region against students who are protesting by constitutional methods against the merger of three educational institutions into one, thereby putting at risk the foundations of…

The Antimonopoly Committee of Ukraine has granted permission to LLC "Trading House "Kontynium-Galychyna" (Lutsk) to receive in lease the property complexes of 19 gas stations of the joint Ukrainian-British enterprise "Western Oil Group" (Lutsk), located in Ternopil, Lviv and Cherkasy regions.

In Lutsk, the general director of the Lutsk Automobile Plant, Volodymyr Hunchyk, was beaten. \nThis happened on the night from Friday to Saturday. At around one o'clock in the morning, the director arrived in a company car at a building on Hulaka-Artemovskoho Street.

The labor collective of OJSC "Lutsk Automobile Plant" addressed the President of Ukraine, the Prime Minister of Ukraine, the Prosecutor General of Ukraine, the Minister of Internal Affairs, and the head of the Volyn Regional State Administration with the following statement.

A large-scale reorganization awaits the employees of the Volyn tax administration. In the tax service, however, this is called modernization of the apparatus's work. Starting September 1, only 4 inter-district tax inspections will operate in Volyn – in Lutsk, Novovolynsk, Kovel, and Volodymyr-Volynskyi.

From August 2 to August 4, 2004, 2,722 real estate purchase and sale agreements were concluded in Ukraine. The highest business activity in real estate transactions was recorded in Donetsk region (272 agreements), in Kyiv (238 agreements), and in Kyiv region (221 real estate purchase and sale agreements).