In Lutsk, the first stone has been laid in the foundation of the Chapel of George the Victory-Bearer, which will be built in memory of fallen militia officers.

Oleksiy MYKHAYLYCHENKO (Dynamo head coach): \n \n- It's hard to comment on the game because there was no game today - I mean the game of Kyiv Dynamo. Probably, the main reason for this lies in the fact that many of our players thought that the championship was already over.

The Verkhovna Rada of Ukraine supported a resolution proposing that President Leonid Kuchma, in connection with the elections in Mukachevo, dismiss the governor of the Zakarpattia region and give an assessment of the destabilizing actions of certain individuals in the presidential administration.

24 million UAH is planned to be allocated from the State Budget for the construction of mine No. 10 in Novovolynsk, the press service of People's Deputy Serhiy Slabenko reported.

The construction of a solid household waste landfill for the city of Novovolynsk and the settlements of the Starolishnyanska village council of the Volyn region in 2004 will be financed from the State Environmental Protection Fund.

According to the main statistics department in the Volyn region, in the first quarter of this year the average salary of Volyn residents was 354 hryvnias. The earnings indicator remains one of the lowest in Ukraine (an even lower average salary is only in the Ternopil and Khmelnytskyi regions).

During the forest month, 86 new landscaped green areas appeared in Volyn, local press reports. \nAmong them are the UCossack GloryFpark in Lutsk district, Gagarin Park in Shatsk, and Polish-Ukrainian friendship gardens in Lyuboml district.

By its inspection, the state enterprise "Volynstandartmetrolohiya" established that only the service station of OJSC "LuAZ" has all the grounds for conducting technical inspection of vehicles.

On May 9, on Europe Day, in the session hall of the Lutsk City Executive Committee, the results of the first in Ukraine "European Olympiad" among School European Clubs from the cities of Lutsk, Rivne, Kivertsi, Kovel, Horokhiv, Volodymyr-Volynskyi, and Turiisk were summarized.

Almost a real swing (a side strike from a long distance in boxing) was received by those listeners of the concert "Polish and Ukrainian Contemporary Music" that took place in Lutsk on May 4, who are not familiar with the subtleties of contemporary music.