The corridor arrangement lapsed in July and Ukraine established a unilateral route along its western Black Sea coast. Within months it was carrying more than the…
A recognisable line of Ukrainian thought holds that the seat of a person is not the intellect, and it runs from an eighteenth-century wandering teacher through…
Agricultural insurance in Ukraine has existed for years and covers a small fraction of the planted area. The reason is a data problem more than a…
The winter of 2022 was survived by improvisation. The winter of 2023 was prepared for: equipment stockpiled, substations physically protected, and repair crews rehearsed against scenarios…
Some wartime purchases genuinely cannot be published. Deciding which ones, and keeping the boundary narrow, is the whole of the problem.
A very large body of song was collected, written down and later recorded, mostly in the last hundred and fifty years, and mostly just in time.
The largest single category of damage in Ukraine is housing. Rebuilding it turned out to depend less on construction capacity than on paperwork.
In September 2023 a substantial number of Ukrainian schools reopened for in-person teaching. What made it possible was concrete, in the literal sense.
Reconstruction markets have a characteristic shape that is visible in advance. Understanding how capacity constraints translate into pricing, and when being early is an advantage rather…
A country where almost everyone has been displaced, bereaved, bombed or waiting for news needs mental health provision on a scale no health system was built…
Music travels further and faster than any other cultural product, and Ukrainian artists have used that in a period when other channels were harder.
The loss of a reservoir removed the water source for cities, farms and a nuclear plant's cooling. The response was immediate engineering; the reconstruction question is…
A continuous record of the Ukrainian market, quarter by quarter and year by year: output, currency, trade, sectors and what each period settled.
Growth, inflation, the hryvnia, budgets and the macro-financial programmes that keep Ukraine's economy running.
Foreign trade flows, free trade agreements, customs practice and the practical mechanics of entering the Ukrainian market.
Elections, governments, parliamentary arithmetic and the institutional reforms that shape the business environment.
Gas, electricity, transit, nuclear generation, ports and the transport corridors that connect Ukraine to its markets.
Damage assessment, recovery financing, construction capacity and the institutions being built to spend it well.
The Association Agreement, DCFTA, candidate status, accession negotiations and the regulatory convergence behind them.
Grain, oilseeds, the land market, export logistics and Ukraine's role in global food supply.
Demography, labour, migration, regional economies and the human context behind the numbers.
The ritual year, the symbols embroidered into cloth and painted onto eggs, the Carpathian practitioners and the philosophers — the older layer beneath modern Ukraine.
Independence Day and the other dates in Ukraine's calendar, each read against the state of the country in that year.
The primary sources this archive rests on. All of them official bodies or institutional data providers.
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