Society & Regions
The publishing boom
Ukrainian-language publishing has grown from a marginal business to a functioning industry with festivals, prizes, translation programmes and readers who buy hardbacks.
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EU & Euro-Atlantic Integration
What the 2004 and 2007 enlargements teach
Ten countries joined in one year and two more three years later. What happened to their economies afterwards is the best available evidence about what accession…
Trade & Investment
Political risk insurance and the return of investors
An investor does not need the risk to disappear. They need it transferred to someone who will price it, and that is what these institutions do.
War economy
Borrowing against a future that is not yet certain
In 2024 partner governments agreed to lend Ukraine substantial sums to be repaid from the future revenues of immobilised russian assets. The structure is unusual and…
National Days & Anniversaries
Independence Day 2024: accession negotiations, and a grid under attack
Thirty-three years. In June, Ukraine formally opened membership negotiations with the European Union. Through the summer, roughly half its generating capacity has been damaged. Both facts…
Trade & Investment
How reconstruction contracts are awarded
A practical description of the procurement systems a contractor will meet, and what determines whether a foreign firm can actually bid.
EU & Euro-Atlantic Integration
Defence industrial cooperation as industrial policy
Joint production arrangements bring machine tools, quality systems and engineering skills into a country. Those outlast whatever is being produced.
Economy & Macro
A banking system that made money in wartime
Ukrainian banks have been profitable through the war. That fact is counterintuitive, entirely explicable, and raises a legitimate policy question.
Economy & Macro
War risk insurance and the price of moving goods
Cargo does not move without cover. Rebuilding war risk insurance for the Black Sea was a financial engineering problem and it determined how much grain got…
Economy & Macro
The labour market got tight, and wages moved
For most of the last two decades Ukraine had more workers than jobs. That reversed, and the consequences run through the whole economy.
Reconstruction & Recovery
Keeping reconstruction procurement clean
Very large sums spent quickly through construction contracts is the classic setting for procurement failure. The safeguards are known and they have to be built in…
EU & Euro-Atlantic Integration
Building the institutions accession requires
Membership is not a legal state; it is a set of working institutions. Several of the ones Ukraine will need do not yet exist in the…
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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
57
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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