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Embarrassed members of Ukraine’s parliament have given up a pay rise to try to defuse public anger after an exercise in transparency revealed they held hundreds of millions of dollars of assets from expensive cars to prized works of art.

Tens of thousands of civil servants were required to file public “e-declarations” of their wealth as part of a far-reaching anti-corruption initiative backed by western donors to the war-scarred country.

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