2004 in review
Analysis published during 2004.
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St Nicholas Day 2004
The nineteenth of December, when children find something under the pillow and the winter holidays properly begin.
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The Orange Revolution: what seventeen days on a square changed for business
A disputed election, a court annulment and a repeat vote. Stripped of the political drama, the events of November and December 2004 established one precedent that mattered more…
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Holodomor Remembrance Day 2004
A candle in the window on the fourth Saturday of November. I learned what it meant in my first months here, and I have lit one every year…
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Day of Ukrainian Writing and Language 2004
Two months into living here, I could say almost nothing. This day is a good moment to admit how that felt, and to thank the people who were…
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Ukraine Market Report — Q3 2004
Economic momentum held through the quarter while political risk priced in sharply. Businesses stopped making decisions and started waiting, which is itself an economic event.
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Knowledge Day 2004
My first first of September in Kyiv. I did not understand the flowers, and nobody explained them, and I have loved the day ever since.
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Independence Day 2004: a country counting down to an election
Thirteen years after the referendum, Ukraine marks its national day in the middle of the best growth year it has ever recorded — and three months before the…
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Ukraine Market Report — Q2 2004
Record export earnings, a contested privatisation of the country's largest steel asset, and the beginning of a political contest that would dominate everything after it.
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Ivana Kupala, 7 July 2004
A midsummer greeting written before I moved here, from what people had described to me.
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Constitution Day, 28 June 2004
A greeting for the day a country wrote down its own rules.
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Ukraine Market Report — Q1 2004
The year opened with the strongest industrial momentum since independence, driven almost entirely by external steel demand. Beneath the numbers, an election-year fiscal expansion was already under way.
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Easter, 11 April 2004
An Easter greeting written from a distance, in the year before I settled in Kyiv.
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Day of Unity, 22 January 2004
A unity day greeting written before I moved here, when the day was only a line in a calendar to me.
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Christmas, 7 January 2004
A Christmas greeting for the January date, from a year when I was still learning what the season looked like here.
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New Year 2004
A greeting for the year I would move to Kyiv, written for a country I had not yet seen.
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