At the beginning of March, President of Ukraine Leonid Kuchma proposed returning the Law "On the Development of the Automobile Industry of Ukraine" to the parliament for reconsideration in order to amend Article 4 of this Law.

Unexpectedly quickly, the giants of European football, Italian "Juventus" and English "Manchester United," ended their Champions League campaign. Alex Ferguson's charges failed to take revenge for the defeat in the first game against "Porto," playing only 1:1 in the return match against the Portuguese.

Leader of the "Our Ukraine" bloc Viktor YUSHCHENKO states that "Our Ukraine" has reached a full understanding regarding joint actions on political reform and the presidential elections with the Yulia TYMOSHENKO Bloc.

On March 5, a reporting and election conference of the Starovyzhivska district organization of the Party of Regions was held. \nThe conference heard a report from the deputy head of the branch on the work carried out in the past year, and discussed the tasks and main directions of work for this year.

On the occasion of the 190th anniversary of the birth of the outstanding Ukrainian poet and artist Taras Shevchenko, today, as well as throughout this week, a number of festive events are planned to be held in Lutsk.

Recently, the heads of the physical culture and sports departments of the Volyn and Brest oblasts (Republic of Belarus) signed an agreement on cooperation for 2004.

In February, 1629 "Zhigulis" rolled off the main assembly line of the Lutsk Automobile Plant. \nas reported by the head of the LuAZ press center, Yaroslav Andrushko, this is the plant's largest monthly program for large-unit assembly of VAZs since 2000.

"Dnipro" - "Dynamo" (Kyiv) - 2:0.

Yesterday, March 6, at the customs checkpoint in Yahodyn on the border between Ukraine and Poland, representatives of the delegation of the International Public Organization "International League for the Protection of the Rights of Citizens of Ukraine" who were returning from Strasbourg to Kyiv were detained.

The leadership of the SPU, "Our Ukraine" and the Yulia Tymoshenko Bloc made a joint decision to hold festive events on March 9 dedicated to the anniversary of the birth of Taras Hryhorovych Shevchenko, the Socialist Party press service reported on Thursday.