2009 in review
Analysis published during 2009.
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St Nicholas Day 2009
A small December kindness in a year when household budgets had been badly squeezed.
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Holodomor Remembrance Day, 28 November 2009
A remembrance message on an evening that asks nothing of anyone except attention.
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Ukrainian Language Day, 9 November 2009
A day for writing as well as speech, and for the people who made the alphabet legible.
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Ukraine Market Report — Q3 2009
A stabilising economy, an excellent harvest and a fiscal position deteriorating into an election. The quarter is a study in how election-year politics undoes crisis-year adjustment.
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Knowledge Day, 1 September 2009
A first-of-September greeting, and a note on the one thing that never gets cut.
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Independence Day 2009: counting the cost of a fixed exchange rate
Eighteen years on, output is down by roughly a seventh, the currency has lost about 40 per cent against the dollar, and a generation of borrowers is learning…
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Ukraine Market Report — Q2 2009
The bottom of the cycle, and the first quarter in which the difference between businesses that had matched their currencies and those that had not became a permanent…
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Ivana Kupala 2009
Midsummer in a difficult year, and the observation that this particular festival costs nothing.
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Constitution Day, 28 June 2009
A greeting for Constitution Day, and a note on what a founding text is for.
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Vyshyvanka Day, 21 May 2009
A greeting for the day the office looks entirely different.
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Easter 2009
An Easter in the middle of a financial crisis, when the table was smaller and the greeting was the same.
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Ukraine Market Report — Q1 2009
A two-week gas interruption that reached European customers, industrial output down by a third, and the deepest point of the contraction. The quarter also permanently changed how Europe…
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International Women's Day, 8 March 2009
A greeting on a day that arrives in the middle of a hard year, and a note on who has been carrying it.
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Ukraine Annual Review 2008: two economies in one year
The first half was an overheating boom with inflation above thirty percent. The second was one of the sharpest contractions in Europe. Nothing structural changed in between; only…
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Day of Unity 2009
A cold January in a bad economic winter, and a day about holding together.
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Ukraine Market Report — Q4 2008
The currency lost around forty percent of its value, industrial output fell by a quarter, and an emergency financing programme was agreed. The quarter is the sharpest single…
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Christmas, 7 January 2009
A Christmas greeting in a hard winter, and what the table does when the year has been bad.
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New Year, 1 January 2009
A new year greeting at the start of a year that everyone already knew would be difficult.
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