2005 in review
Analysis published during 2005.
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St Nicholas Day, 19 December 2005
A greeting for my first proper St Nicholas Day here, and the thing I got wrong about it.
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Holodomor Remembrance Day, 26 November 2005
My first remembrance day here, and what I did not know before that evening.
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Ukrainian Language Day, 9 November 2005
A day for a language, marked by a foreigner still learning it.
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Ukraine Market Report — Q3 2005
A government dismissed, a coalition dissolved, and — in the middle of it — the clearest signal of the decade that a competitive privatisation was possible.
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Eight months: why the 2005 coalition collapsed, and what it cost
The government that came out of the Orange Revolution was dismissed in its entirety in September 2005. The proximate cause was a corruption dispute; the underlying cause was…
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Knowledge Day 2005
My second first of September, and the year I stopped being the person who did not understand what was happening.
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Independence Day 2005: the year after, and the bill for it
The first national day since the Orange Revolution arrives with the coalition that made it visibly cracking, growth down from eleven per cent to under three, and investors…
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Ukraine Market Report — Q2 2005
Administrative price interventions in food markets, a sharp slowdown in industry, and the first clear evidence that the 2004 growth rate had been a price effect rather than…
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Ivana Kupala 2005
Fire, water, wreaths on the river and the shortest night of the year — the oldest layer of the Ukrainian calendar, and the least explicable to a newcomer.
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Constitution Day 2005
A greeting for the day a country marks having written its own rules for itself — and nothing further, because the arguments about them are not mine to…
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Easter 2005
A classmate took me home to his family for Easter. I understood almost none of it and it remains one of the warmest days I have had here.
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Ukraine Market Report — Q1 2005
A new administration, a reform mandate, and an immediate policy problem: what to do about the privatisations of the previous decade. The answer given in this quarter cost…
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International Women's Day, 8 March 2005
A greeting for the day the whole country buys flowers, and a note on what the day looks like from inside an office.
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Ukraine Annual Review 2004: the best year and the wrong lesson
The strongest growth of the independence period, a record external position, and a political crisis at the end of it. The year is most useful as an illustration…
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Day of Unity, 22 January 2005
A unity day greeting a few months after I arrived, when I was still learning what the day was.
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Ukraine Market Report — Q4 2004
A disputed election, mass protest, a repeat vote and a change of government inside eight weeks. The commercial system absorbed all of it without a payments failure, which…
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Christmas, 7 January 2005
A Christmas greeting at the end of a winter that had been anything but quiet.
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New Year 2005
My first New Year in Kyiv, spent in a student flat with people from four countries and not enough chairs.
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