Here's a taster from Christopher Miller's article:
Some of the most notable declarations include those of Ukrainian President Petro Poroshenko, Prime Minister Volodymyr Hroysman, and Interior Minister Arsen Avakov. All are known to have amassed considerable wealth prior to taking office, but the public has not previously been allowed to see the extent of their wealth.
According to his declaration, Poroshenko, a billionaire entrepreneur before he assumed office in May 2014, is the beneficiary of 104 companies in 10 countries, and keeps 540,000 hryvnyas ($21,099), $26.3 million, and 14,300 euros ($15, 654), respectively, in bank accounts. He also declared 900,000 hryvnyas and another $60,000 in cash. His income for 2015 was 62.16 million hryvnyas, or more than $2.4 million.
Poroshenko also listed in his declaration several properties and valuable possessions belonging to family members.
"As for my e-declaration, I'd like to note straightaway that all the valuable movable and immovable property -- housing, estates, cars, paintings, women's jewelry -- had been purchased (not leased) before my presidency. In addition, mainly the property was acquired when I was not a public servant," Poroshenko wrote on his Facebook page a little more than one hour before the deadline on October 30.
Hroysman, who has been in public service for the past 14 years, declared that he and his wife have some $1.8 million in cash. He also said that he owns a collection of 12 luxury wristwatches.
Avakov's declaration includes hundreds of thousands of dollars and euros in cash, as well as large collections of paintings, clocks, Italian furniture, valuable books, and vintage wines worth millions of dollars.
There were some oddities among the declarations.
Lawmaker, Radical Party leader, and onetime presidential candidate Oleh Lyashko declared a pricey collection of watches, as well as a "peasant pitchfork" -- a symbol of his Radical Party that he has posed with on billboards.
Anatoliy Matviyenko, a lawmaker with the president's Petro Poroshenko Bloc, declared a church.
And Dnipro Mayor Boris Filatov disclosed that he is the owner of a ticket for a suborbital space flight with Virgin Galactic that he purchased in 2009 for 1.4 million hryvnyas.
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Here's a new item from RFE/RL's news desk:
Dutch Government Seeks More Time On Ukraine-EU Treaty Impasse
The Dutch government is seeking up to six more weeks to broker a complex deal to prevent the Netherlands withdrawing its support for a partnership agreement between the EU and Ukraine.
Foreign Minister Bert Koenders said in a letter to parliament on October 31 that the government needs more time to negotiate a "legally binding" deal that would be acceptable to the 27 other EU countries while honoring the Netherlands' recent popular referendum that rejected Brussel's association treaty with Kyiv.
Koenders said the government would now aim to reach an agreement between opposition parties, other EU governments and Ukraine, by December 15.
In the April popular referendum, nearly two-thirds of Dutch voters said "No" to the EU's association treaty on closer political, military, and trade relations with Ukraine -- and the Netherlands is the only EU state not to have ratified it.
Dutch Prime Minister Mark Rutte, who does not want the agreement to be rejected, had agreed to inform parliament of the government's plan for dealing with the results of the non-binding vote by November 1.