Yesterday evening in Kyiv, at the age of 72, Metropolitan Yakiv of the Lutsk and Volyn Eparchy of the Ukrainian Orthodox Church of the Kyiv Patriarchate, Vladika Yakiv, died. As a correspondent of ULutsk InvestmentovohoF was told at the Holy Trinity Cathedral in Lutsk, Vladika Yakiv had been feeling unwell recently.

UZhyvchykFrecognized as the best domestic non-alcoholic beverage based on the results of the All-Ukrainian product quality competition U100best goods of UkraineF.

If a referendum on Ukraine's accession to the European Union (EU) were held next Sunday, 64% of Lutsk residents would vote "for" and 6% would vote "against". These results of a sociological survey of Lutsk residents were made public by the Democratic Initiatives Foundation together with the Socis Center.

The Verkhovna Rada of Ukraine adopted the resolution "On ensuring the unimpeded activity of mass media during the pre-election period of 2004," submitted by people's deputies Mykola TOMENKO, Ivan BOKY and others. 294 of the 438 deputies registered in the hall voted "for,"

Recently, the fourth competition in the past year for the sale of a block of shares of the open joint-stock company "Lutsk Aviation Enterprise" ended. The block of shares offered for sale this time consisted of 3,418,200 units - 70.

For the Committee of the Verkhovna Rada of Ukraine on Freedom of Speech and Information, it is very important that all positions of the media space be reflected in the new edition of the Law of Ukraine "On Elections of the President of Ukraine," noted People's Deputy of Ukraine Mykola Tomenko at a round table on the…

Heavyweight Corrie Sanders, who is preparing for the fight for the WBC world champion title against Ukrainian Vitali Klitschko, which will take place on April 24 in Los Angeles, stated that if he wins this bout, he will also have a rematch with Wladimir. If Sanders loses, he will leave professional boxing.

The tenth session of the Volyn Regional Council of the fourth convocation is underway in the regional council's meeting hall. The session began its work at 10 a.m. As of 11:50, the head of the regional council, Vasyl Dmytruk, read out a statement on the creation of a new faction in the regional council — "Statehood".

Within the framework of the implementation of the "Healthy Mother and Child" Program, which has been taking place in Lutsk since 2003, a seminar-training was held at the Lutsk Clinical Maternity Hospital. It was attended by 36 specialists from 4 countries — Lithuania, Moldova, Russia, and four regions of Ukraine.

During January-February 2004, 94 million UAH was received into the general fund of the region's budgets of all levels. This constitutes 96% of the projected amount.