2007 in review
Analysis published during 2007.
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St Nicholas Day, 19 December 2007
A greeting for the morning of the small gift, and a note on the birch twig that used to come with it.
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Holodomor Remembrance Day, 24 November 2007
A remembrance message, and the reason I stopped asking people about it directly.
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Ukrainian Language Day, 9 November 2007
A language day greeting from the stage where I could follow a meeting but not a joke.
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Ukraine Market Report — Q3 2007
An early parliamentary election, an inflation rate moving into the high teens, and the first tightening in international credit markets that most Ukrainian borrowers did not notice.
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Knowledge Day, 1 September 2007
The first of September, and a courtyard full of flowers.
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Independence Day 2007: governing in the gaps between elections
Ukraine celebrates its sixteenth anniversary five weeks before a snap parliamentary election that exists because the constitution written in 2004 does not say clearly who is allowed to…
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Ukraine Market Report — Q2 2007
A constitutional standoff over the dissolution of parliament ran through the quarter. The economy grew at close to eight percent while it happened.
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Ivana Kupala, 7 July 2007
A midsummer greeting, and the part of the night that happens before the fire is lit.
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Constitution Day, 28 June 2007
A short note on the anniversary, with the arguments left where they belong.
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Vyshyvanka Day 2007
A day that began as a student idea in Chernivtsi: wear the embroidered shirt to class and see who else does.
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Ukraine Market Report — Q1 2007
Strong output, accelerating credit, and grain export restrictions that taught the agricultural sector a lesson about where regulatory risk actually sits.
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Easter, 8 April 2007
An Easter greeting, and a note on the week before it, which is where most of the work happens.
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International Women's Day, 8 March 2007
A greeting on the day, and a word about the women running the businesses I deal with.
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Ukraine Annual Review 2006: the year the cost base changed
A gas price shock that reset the economics of half of Ukrainian industry, a five-month political vacuum that barely touched commercial activity, and a credit expansion that nobody…
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Unity Day, 22 January 2007
A greeting for the anniversary of two halves agreeing to be one country.
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Ukraine Market Report — Q4 2006
A strong close to a strong year, with the current account crossing into deficit and nobody treating it as significant. The quarter is a study in how a…
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Christmas, 7 January 2007
A Christmas greeting, and a note on the one dish nobody skips.
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New Year 2007
A student New Year, the last one before graduation changed what the year meant.
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