All this follows from their declarations, which the candidates, in accordance with legal requirements, posted on the CEC website within three days.

Now their competitors have to take a magnifying glass and carefully study whether their opponent made a fatal mistake somewhere and didn't declare a 20-hryvnia lottery win in "Patriot."

The electorate also has something to think about. True, they have a different approach to this matter: the more they have, the less they'll steal.

So what do the first four presidential candidates have?

Viktor Yanukovych - the prime minister and presidential candidate has the status of a first-category civil servant.

His only family member listed is his wife - Lyudmyla Oleksiivna. Two sons and his dear mother-in-law, according to the specifics of the legislation, are not included in the declaration.

Yanukovych's total aggregate income amounts to 42,656 hryvnias 40 kopecks, of which salary is 33,600. That is, monthly the Ukrainian prime minister earns about 530 dollars. Dividends, interest, and royalties add only 402.50 to the premier's wallet. Therefore he receives another 4,800 in material assistance from the state, just like the other candidates.

A doctoral academic degree also brings in some pennies - income from scientific activity for 2003 amounts to 3,853.90.

Mr. Yanukovych is not engaged in entrepreneurial activity and did not sell any securities in 2003.

Yanukovych's wife has a not much smaller income - 39,382.65 hryvnias. She receives all of this as salary.

Judging by the section "Financial obligations, including abroad," Yanukovych did not insure, rent, or borrow anything last year. For housing maintenance he paid 2,880.72.

Also, Yanukovych has neither a land plot, nor his own house, nor a garden cottage. Therefore all the talk about estates in the mining town of Budyonivka, on the Azov coast of Urzuf, or at least near Petrivtsi in Kyiv Oblast - is empty fabrication.

However, Yanukovych does have an apartment - 144 meters. There is also a garage - 22 meters. True, what's in it is unknown. Because our prime minister has neither a car, nor a bus, nor a motorcycle, nor a tractor, nor water transport.

On the other hand, the premier does have purchased securities worth 2,540 hryvnias.

Actually, this is where the material-financial part of presidential candidate Yanukovych's biography ends.

Yanukovych's main competitor Viktor Yushchenko earns less per year than the premier - 34,790.25, of which parliamentary salary is 29,350. Dividends, interest, royalties 1,725.79, material assistance - 3,712. Yushchenko, who has a candidate's degree in economics, does not publish scientific works and does not earn money from them.

Yushchenko's wife Kateryna-Claire or simply Kateryna Chumachenko earns more than her husband and even more than the Ukrainian premier - her aggregate income amounts to 480,756.85 hryvnias. This is almost all income from entrepreneurial activity (363,955.00) plus 115,554 in dividends, interest, and 1,253 hryvnias from the sale of securities.

The large Yushchenko family lives on this money. True, only Sofiika and Khrystynka are listed in the declaration. This is not from a lack of parental love, but due to the specifics of the presidential election law and the Civil Code. According to these, only minor children living with their parents are entered in the declaration. In 2003, only daughters Sofiika and Khrystynka lived with Viktor Yushchenko, as well as adult Vitalina, who has her own family and therefore is not entered in the documents. Likewise son Andriy, who lives separately. As for the younger Tarasyk, he was born only in spring 2004.

The family lives in a residential building with an area of 370 sq. m. Yushchenko's wife also has an apartment with an area of 399 sq. m. There are also two land plots: Viktor Yushchenko's at 54,596 sq. m., and Kateryna Chumachenko's - 6,070 sq. m.

The family has no car, just as no garage. But there are two trailers that are owned by Yushchenko, which is noted in the declaration as a separate line.

For the maintenance of all this property, Kateryna Yushchenko paid 57,211.59 hryvnias in 2003, of which 52,568.59 was abroad.

In addition, Viktor Yushchenko has 61,917.57 in a bank account. His wife has 2,650,000 in accounts abroad. Besides this, she owns securities worth 708,500 hryvnias.

Moroz Oleksandr lives with his wife Valentyna. For 2003 he has an aggregate income of 34,584.90. Of this - 27,564 in salary, 4,860 - material assistance, 2,160 - income from creative and author's remuneration (since he has no academic degrees).

His wife has an aggregate income of 2,417.90. Of this 543.64 - material assistance. The rest is, one should understand, a disability pension (but there is no such line in the declaration).

As for property, Moroz has only an apartment of 56.3 sq. m. His wife has the same. For property maintenance the SPU leader paid 3,057.24 hryvnias in 2003. He does not own any automobiles or other transport. Nor money in accounts or securities.

Unlike Oleksandr Moroz, Oleksandr Rzhavsky is currently the richest contender for the presidency. His aggregate income for 2003 amounts to almost two million.

As it turned out, according to the declaration, Oleksandr Mykolaiovych Rzhavsky had the largest income last year - 1,978,470.03 hryvnias. Of this, 4,930.00 - material assistance, 740.00 - income from the alienation of securities and corporate rights, and 6,631.26 - wages.

Rzhavsky supports his family on this money: his wife, two sons, and a daughter. Their aggregate income for 2003 equals zero. But 7,500.00 hryvnias of voluntary insurance and 238,500.00 in loans are registered to them.

As for property, Rzhavsky has a land plot with an area of 4,500 sq. m., a residential building with an area of 1,330 sq. m., an apartment - 150.7 sq. m., and a garage - 28.8 sq. m.

And presidential candidate Rzhavsky also has an entire fleet of vehicles. In his private ownership are Mercedes ML - 320, engine capacity 3200; Cadillac DeVille, engine capacity 4600; a jeep with engine capacity 4300. In addition, family members also have a Nissan Primera 1800, a Nissan Primera 2000, and a VAZ-2115 1500.

For the maintenance of all this property Rzhavsky paid 73,500.00.

Besides this, Rzhavsky has purchased securities worth 1,874,560.00, and family members - 700,000.00. Contributions (shares) to the charter (share) funds of enterprises, institutions, organizations for the presidential candidate - 1,350,000.00, for the family - 980,000.00. In accounts at banks and other financial-credit institutions, Rzhavsky has a total of 54,000.00.

Only the position is missing for happiness - president of Ukraine.