Week in numbers

Seven MPs failed to submit e-declarations, 97 court rulings have been issued in a case of journalist Pavlo Sheremet killing, $1.875 billion has been wired into Ukraine from abroad.

Third place in the world chess FIDE ranking is occupied by Ukraine’s Hanna Muzychuk with 2,561 points, according to the official website of the organization. She held no official matches in October though.

Seven members of the Ukrainian parliament have missed the deadline to file their electronic declaration of assets, according to the Prosecutor General's Office. Now the MPs face criminal liability: from 150 to 240 hours of community service, or imprisonment for up to 2 years, with disqualification from office for up to 3 years.

Eight suspicion notifications were issued against former Ukrainian president Viktor Yanukovych, according to the PGO’s special investigation department.

15 People's Deputies are in focus of the Ukrainian prosecutors within the probe into the criminal activity of Yanukovych gang. However, the law enforcers have not yet drafted requests to the Verkhovna Rada to strip the potential suspects of parliamentary immunity, according to Prosecutor General of Ukraine Yuriy Lutsenko.

17 freight containers with illegally cut timber were arrested by the fiscal service and the Odesa region’s National Police Department under the procedural guidance of the Prosecutor's Office in Odesa region, the local fiscal service reported.

20 iPhones 7, earlier acquired as presents from relation seekers were sold by a Chinese woman from the city of Shenzhen. The proceeds of RMB 120,000  were used as the woman’s first mortgage payment to buy an uptown house.

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22 illegal migrants - citizens of Vietnam, Afghanistan, Iran, India and Pakistan - were detained by Ukrainian and Slovak border guards as the group was trying to cross the Ukraine-EU border (toward Slovakia), as reported by the State Border Guard Service of Ukraine.

23 warnings were issued by Ukraine’s TV and Radio regulator to national providers for rebroadcasting banned Russian TV channels.

42% of Ukrainians are ready to support the idea of early elections to the Verkhovna Rada, according to a poll conducted by Rating sociological group on the request of the International Republican Institute.

48.7% of the votes in Moldova’s presidential election were cast for the leader of the Party of Socialists, Igor Dodon, while his main rival Maia Sandu, the candidate of the pro-European forces, raised 37.96% of the votes, foreign media reported. Now the country is preparing for the second round of the election race.

60% of Kyiv’s central heating network has run out of its service life. However, the utility services are trying to fix the problems at emergency sites as quickly as possible, according to the Kyiv City State Administration.

92nd anniversary is being celebrated by one of the leading sports clubs of Ukraine Dynamo.

97 court rulings have been handed down in the case of the murder of journalist Pavlo Sheremet. The investigation continues, according to the National Police of Ukraine.

140 Russian cultural figures were banned from entering Ukraine by the Ukrainian Security Service.

144 cases of poisoning with dangerous counterfeit alcohol were recorded in Ukraine, with 67 lethal cases reported, according to the State Service for Food Safety and Consumer Protection.

150 buildings were damaged by earthquakes in the Italian capital city of Rome. According to the civil defense and fire service, small cracks formed in the buildings of famous Roman museums - Galleria Borghese, Palazzo Barberini as well as around ten basilicas, foreign media reported.

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239 migrants from Libya drowned in the Mediterranean as two boats carrying them to the EU shores capsized in the open sea, according to the UN.

411 criminal offenses were recorded in the territory of the so-called "DPR" by the Ukrainian police over the past 10 months, said Donetsk Region’s National Police Department chief Vyacheslav Abroskin.

700 journalists have been killed on duty around the world in the last ten years, the UN reported.

1,239 people have been killed in fires in Ukraine since the beginning of 2016 and another 976 were injured, according to the State Service for Emergency Situations. A total of 65,797 of fires was recorded in the current year.

3,000 cyberattacks were carried out daily on the national e-declaration system, according to the State Special Communication Service.

25,000 civilians are planned to be used as human shields in Iraq’s Mosul by the so-called Islamic State terrorist group, the UN said, according to foreign media.

47,000 heads of private enterprises in Ukraine pay themselves a monthly salary of UAH 1,450, said Minister of Social Policy Andriy Reva. In his view, this is the evidence of a large-scale practice of shadow payments.

70,000 children in Ukraine are in need of palliative care, according to UNICEF.

120,954 e-declarations have been submitted to the register of e-declarations of civil servants of all levels, according to the National Agency of Ukraine on Corruption Prevention.

335,031 migrants arrived in Europe by sea in 2016, according to the International Organization for Migration (IOM). Most of them came through Greece and Italy.

$1.875 billion has been wired into Ukraine from abroad via money transfer systems, according to the National Bank of Ukraine.

UAH 4.8 billion is the overall debt of Ukraine's households for central heating and hot water, according to the State Statistics Service of Ukraine.

$10 billion is Russia’s annual loss due the Kremlin’s promises to build up the infrastructure of the Russian-annexed peninsula, foreign media reported.

UAH 38 billion of additional income to the state budget is expected by the Ministry of Social Policy at the expense of increasing the minimum wage. The officials say this will contribute to de-shadowing, economic growth, and fair distribution of public funds, said Minister of Social Policy of Ukraine Andriy Reva.

Margarita Andreyeva

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