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On April 19, the Lutsk City and District Court denied candidate for mayor Volodymyr Lytvyniuk's lawsuit against the Territorial Election Commission seeking to declare unlawful the decision refusing to recognize the elections as invalid. The court issued a ruling that the lawsuit was unfounded.

Exactly one year has passed since the conclave of cardinals elected as Pope the first German in the last thousand years.

“Local councils have become hostages not only of the proportional election system, but also of the political consequences of such elections,” believes Oleksandr Martyniuk, head of the Volyn Oblast Organization of the RPR.

On April 18, the Lutsk City and District Court granted the repeated motion of candidate for the position of city mayor Volodymyr Lytvyniuk to recuse judge Valentyna Pushkarchuk.
"Companies attribute this trend to rising oil prices on international exchanges, and experts predict a further increase in fuel prices, which could reach 10% by the end of spring," reports "Ekonomicheskiye Izvestiya."
The document provides for allowing government officials to return to the Verkhovna Rada, reports “Economic News”.\n \nAccording to the draft refined by Justice Minister Serhiy Holovaty, a resigned minister will have the right to return to parliament if he was a people's deputy before leaving for the executive branch.
On April 25, 2006, at the initiative of the Lutsk Territorial Election Commission, the first ceremonial session of the city council of the new 5th convocation is planned, at which the newly elected mayor of Lutsk, Bohdan Shyba, will receive a permanent certificate of city mayor, and with it official powers (such as…

Chris Byrd has arrived in Germany, where a duel awaits him on April 22. In 2000, Byrd already met the Klitschko brothers in fights for the WBO title in this weight class — first he took this title from the older brother Vitali, and six months later he suffered the second defeat of his career in a fight with Volodymyr.

On April 14, in Lutsk, as part of the western Ukrainian tour "Renewable Sources and Energy Conservation Will Stop Nuclear Energy Forever!", an action dedicated to the 20th anniversary of the Chornobyl tragedy and aimed against the government's nuclear policy took place.
The Board of the Department of Culture and Tourism of the Volyn Regional State Administration has published an appeal inviting all concerned people, admirers of the native word, connoisseurs of books and owners of home libraries to take an active part in the regional campaign "Let's Help the Village Library!