Folklore & Esoterica
Pysanka: the egg as a written charm
The name comes from the verb to write, not to paint. Wax is applied with a stylus, the egg is dyed, and the process repeats from…
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Folklore & Esoterica
The rushnyk: cloth as a ritual instrument
A narrow embroidered length of linen appears at every threshold of a Ukrainian life — birth, marriage, burial — and at state ceremonies. It is not…
Folklore & Esoterica
Trypillia: the culture beneath the black soil
Six thousand years ago the land between the Dnipro and the Dnister held some of the largest settlements on earth. They left almost no weapons, a…
Folklore & Esoterica
The kobzars and the sung epic: a tradition that was ended
Blind itinerant singers carried a body of narrative verse across Ukraine for three centuries, organised into guilds with their own training, rules and secret language. The…
Folklore & Esoterica
Molfars: the Carpathian practitioners and what they were for
In the Hutsul villages of the eastern Carpathians there was a specialist who read weather, treated illness and settled disputes nobody wanted in front of a…
Folklore & Esoterica
Skovoroda: the wandering philosopher and the three worlds
He refused a bishopric, a professorship and a court appointment, and spent thirty years walking between villages with a flute and a manuscript bag. His epitaph…
Quarterly & Annual Reports
Ukraine Annual Review 2025: twenty-two years of reports, and what they add up to
The final annual review in this series closes a record that began in 2004. Read end to end, it describes an economy that changed almost every…
National Days & Anniversaries
Unity Day, 22 January 2026
A greeting for the anniversary, without further commentary.
Quarterly & Annual Reports
Ukraine Market Report — Q4 2025
A fourth full year of operating under wartime conditions closes with the economy stable at a reduced level, the accession programme advancing technically, and the same…
Economy & Macro
Reading a year ahead in a country under pressure: a method rather than a forecast
Annual outlooks for a country in this position are worth very little as predictions and quite a lot as frameworks. What follows is the framework…
Folklore & Esoterica
The folk calendar: a working year organised by ritual
Before there were almanacs there were saints' days, and each one carried an instruction: sow now, stop grazing, cut the hay, do not begin anything. The…
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Quarterly & Annual Reports
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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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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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