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NBU officials and private bankers assure that the reduction of the country's main bank reserves will not have negative consequences. Since the beginning of 2006, the foreign currency reserves of the National Bank of Ukraine (NBU) have decreased by approximately $500 million.

Temporarily suspended education in general educational institutions of Lutsk.
On January 21, during the first interparty conference of the Volyn People's Bloc of Lytvyn, which included the People's Party, the USDP, and the "Justice" party, both the first five and 27 candidates for deputies to the regional council were determined.
On January 21, at the conference of the Volyn regional organization of the People's Party, Vasyl Dmytruk – the head of the regional council – was elected as its new head. This was reported by the own correspondent of the Western Information Corporation.
In 2005, JSC "Volynoblenergo" suffered losses of one million 250 thousand hryvnias due to electricity theft by household consumers. In total, over 12 months, inspectors discovered almost two thousand cases of unmetered use of electricity.
The round table "Government and Community: Effective Cooperation in Decision-Making" took place in the city of Lutsk on January 20, 2006. The event was organized by the Center for Political Education and the Center for Public Youth Organizations of Volyn "Our Cause.
On January 21, the Minister of Finance of Ukraine, Viktor Pynzenyk, paid a working visit to Volyn Oblast. He met with the head of the oblast state administration, Volodymyr Bondar, and together with him held a press conference on the topic "General Characteristics of the 2005 Budget.
People's Deputy of Ukraine, member of the UNP faction in the Verkhovna Rada, representative of the Ukrainian People's Bloc of Kostenko and Plyushch Stepan Khmara was in Novovolynsk on a working visit.
On January 26, representatives of the Swiss Organization for Facilitating Investments (SOFI) will be in Lutsk.
In the "Continuum" group, controlled by People's Deputy Ihor Yeremeyev, consolidation of assets has begun for an IPO. "We need to make the company more transparent and bring it to the external market - to an IPO," Ihor Yeremeyev told "DELO".
