Ukraine acts to push through anti-corruption laws before election


  • World
  • Tuesday, 07 Oct 2014

KIEV (Reuters) - Ukraine's pro-Western government pressed ahead to secure new laws to tackle top-level government corruption on Tuesday, hoping to ease public discontent before an election from which it wants backing for its plan to end a separatist rebellion.

The proposed laws - presented by Prime Minister Arseny Yatseniuk ahead of an Oct. 26 parliamentary election - will oblige high-level officials in government, the judiciary and law-enforcement to declare their own and their families' assets and financial transactions.

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