Politics & Governance
Recovery planning at community level
National recovery plans allocate money. Community recovery plans decide what actually gets built, and most communities have to learn how to write one.
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Politics & Governance
Policy for veterans, as an economic question
A very large number of people will return from service and need to work. Treating that as a welfare problem rather than a labour market one…
Foreign relations
Screening: the least dramatic and most consequential stage
Accession negotiations formally opened in mid-2024, and the work that immediately followed was the least reported and the most decisive.
War economy
City to city
Some of the most effective reconstruction assistance has gone directly from one municipality to another, bypassing national machinery entirely.
Culture and identity
Getting the books translated
A literature that is not translated does not exist for most of the world. By 2024 translation had become one of the more effective forms of…
Politics & Governance
Auditing public money in wartime
Emergency spending is exactly the spending most in need of audit and least convenient to audit. Ukraine has kept the mechanism running, which is not the…
Domestic balance
Machines, dogs and the limits of both
Clearance is often pictured as a person with a detector. In practice it is a sequence of methods, each faster and less certain than the next.
Humanitarian dimension
Rebuilding a hospital to a different standard
A destroyed hospital is not rebuilt as it was. It is rebuilt to a standard the old one never met, and the decision to do that…
Humanitarian dimension
Evacuating people who do not want to leave
The hardest humanitarian work in Ukraine is persuading an eighty-year-old to leave a house they have lived in for sixty years, and doing it without coercion.
Culture and identity
Schools built underground
In regions where an air raid alert can last most of a school day, the answer was not a basement adapted as a shelter. It was…
National Days & Anniversaries
Knowledge Day, 1 September 2024
A first-of-September greeting for a yard that is fuller than last year, and for the yards that still cannot fill.
Domestic balance
Rebuilding generation in the months you have
The strikes of spring 2024 took out a large share of Ukraine's thermal generation. The summer was spent doing something about it before October.
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Quarterly & Annual Reports
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A continuous record of the Ukrainian market, quarter by quarter and year by year: output, currency, trade, sectors and what each period settled.
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Economy & Macro
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Growth, inflation, the hryvnia, budgets and the macro-financial programmes that keep Ukraine's economy running.
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Trade & Investment
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Foreign trade flows, free trade agreements, customs practice and the practical mechanics of entering the Ukrainian market.
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Politics & Governance
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Elections, governments, parliamentary arithmetic and the institutional reforms that shape the business environment.
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Energy & Infrastructure
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Gas, electricity, transit, nuclear generation, ports and the transport corridors that connect Ukraine to its markets.
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Reconstruction & Recovery
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Damage assessment, recovery financing, construction capacity and the institutions being built to spend it well.
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EU & Euro-Atlantic Integration
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The Association Agreement, DCFTA, candidate status, accession negotiations and the regulatory convergence behind them.
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Agriculture & Food
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Grain, oilseeds, the land market, export logistics and Ukraine's role in global food supply.
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Society & Regions
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Demography, labour, migration, regional economies and the human context behind the numbers.
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Folklore & Esoterica
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The ritual year, the symbols embroidered into cloth and painted onto eggs, the Carpathian practitioners and the philosophers — the older layer beneath modern Ukraine.
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National Days & Anniversaries
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Independence Day and the other dates in Ukraine's calendar, each read against the state of the country in that year.
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