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Ukraine got the go-ahead to start a delayed online system that monitors the incomes and assets of government officials, a key step to unfreezing the nation's $17.5 billion international bailout.

Having held up the implementation of the electronic-declaration system, most recently over security concerns, Leonid Yevdochenko, the head of the Special Communications Service, said it was safe to use. It will go into force Sept. 1, five months later than originally envisaged.

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