MOSCOW, July 8 (RAPSI) - President Vladimir Putin has approved a procedure for publishing information about officials' incomes in the media and on official websites.  The document to this effect has been posted on the official website of legal information.

Officials' income and expense declarations must include "information about the sources of funds for the purchase of land plots and other immovable property, vehicles, securities and shares (...) if the sum of the transaction exceeds the total income of the official and his/her spouse for the preceding three years," the document says.

Authorized agencies are to notify officials who have not yet declared their incomes, or have not provided full information, about media requests. Officials have a week to provide the media with the information requested.