Overnight from December 15 to 16, the house, garage, and car of Ukrainian People's Deputy Yevhen KyryLchuk were set on fire.

The head of the Volyn representation of "Our Ukraine," Volodymyr Bondar, accused the regional authorities and the regional police of involvement in the fire involving the car of the editor-in-chief of the newspaper "Vilna Dumka," which is published in Volyn, Mykola Panasiuk, which occurred last week.

\n \nStatement of the Volyn Representation of the "Our Ukraine" Bloc regarding the state of ensuring civil rights and freedoms in the region \n \n \n \nThe level of ensuring basic democratic values: freedom of speech, the right to freely express opinions, the right to peaceful assembly, etc.

Delegates of the Volyn public forum "For Constitutional Reform," which took place today in Lutsk, did not support the constitutional reform proposed by President of Ukraine Leonid Kuchma.

During the campaign "A People's President for Ukraine!" as of December 10, over 104 thousand signatures had been collected in Volyn in favor of preserving the right to elect the President of Ukraine by popular vote.

The budget of the Government for 2004, adopted by the votes of the parliamentary majority, will be remembered by the citizens of Ukraine not only for the reduction of the minimum wage from 237 to 205 UAH.

This is exactly the thought that surfaced in the author of this article after the premiere performance of the collective of the Volyn Drama Theater named after T. Shevchenko titled "Forgive and Have Mercy," which took place on Sunday, December 7.

Today, a statement by the editors of Volyn newspapers regarding gross administrative interference in the subscription process for periodicals was published in the print media of Volyn Oblast.

"If we draw parallels between the Russian and Ukrainian political classes, we must acknowledge that our state lags behind Russia in political development. In Ukraine, post-Soviet leaders remain in power. Our head of state is in fact still a factory director.