2006 in review
Analysis published during 2006.
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St Nicholas Day, 19 December 2006
A greeting for the morning of the small gift, and a note on the one letter children write.
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Holodomor Remembrance Day, 25 November 2006
A remembrance message, and a note on the difference between a monument and an evening.
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Ukrainian Language Day, 9 November 2006
A day marked by a dictation that the whole country writes at once.
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Ukraine Market Report — Q3 2006
A government finally formed, under a prime minister whose party had lost the previous presidential contest. The policy direction became genuinely uncertain while the economy continued growing without…
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Knowledge Day, 1 September 2006
A first-of-September greeting from my second autumn here, and the detail I had not expected.
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Independence Day 2006: fifteen years, and a gas bill that changed the arithmetic
The anniversary arrives three weeks after the man defeated in 2004 returned as prime minister, and eight months after the price of imported gas nearly doubled. Both facts…
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Ukraine Market Report — Q2 2006
Three months without a government and the strongest industrial recovery in two years, happening simultaneously. The quarter is the cleanest available demonstration that the two are less connected…
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Ivana Kupala, 7 July 2006
My first Kupala night watched properly, and the thing that surprised me about who was there.
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Constitution Day, 28 June 2006
A short note on the anniversary from my second year here, with the substance left to those it belongs to.
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Easter, 23 April 2006
An Easter greeting from my second spring here, and the thing about the basket I had misunderstood.
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Ukraine Market Report — Q1 2006
The year opened with a supply interruption and a near-doubling of the gas price. Every cost model in Ukrainian heavy industry had to be rewritten inside a fortnight.
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International Women's Day 2006
The eighth of March in Kyiv is a day of flowers on a scale that has to be seen. A greeting to the women I have studied and…
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Ukraine Annual Review 2005: a mandate spent and a precedent set
Growth fell to a fraction of the previous year, a reform government dissolved inside eight months, and one transparent auction demonstrated what the country was capable of when…
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Day of Unity 2006
A day about lands being joined, marked in January when the Dnipro is frozen and nobody much wants to be outside.
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January 2006: the gas crisis that ended cheap energy in Ukraine
Supplies stopped on New Year's Day and resumed at nearly double the price. The dispute was settled in three days; the change it made to Ukrainian industrial economics…
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Ukraine Market Report — Q4 2005
An open international auction sold the country's largest steel asset for several times the previous year's price, and a gas supply dispute at the very end of the…
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Christmas 2006
My second Ukrainian Christmas, and the first at which I understood roughly what was happening around the table.
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New Year, 1 January 2006
A new year greeting, and a note on the two new years this country keeps.
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