National Days & Anniversaries
Day of Ukrainian Statehood, 15 July 2023
A greeting for a young holiday about an old subject, kept to what can safely be said by a guest.
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Quarterly & Annual Reports
Ukraine Market Report — Q2 2023
Growth continuing from a low base, inflation falling rapidly, and an export corridor whose continuation was uncertain from one renewal to the next.
Energy & Infrastructure
The Danube ports that carried a country
Izmail and Reni had handled modest volumes for decades. Within months they were moving a large share of a national export trade.
National Days & Anniversaries
Ivana Kupala, 7 July 2023
A midsummer night marked more quietly than usual.
Economy & Macro
The economy that kept working
After a severe contraction in 2022, the Ukrainian economy returned to growth while the war continued. The composition of that growth is more interesting than the…
Trade & Investment
Export credit and the agencies that carry the risk
An exporter cannot offer a Ukrainian buyer two-year payment terms out of their own balance sheet. An export credit agency is what makes that offer possible.
National Days & Anniversaries
Constitution Day 2023
A short greeting, kept short as always, in a year when the legal framework was being rewritten at speed for a different reason.
Foreign relations
The instrument aimed at the detour
The eleventh package in June 2023 was less about new prohibitions than about a new capability: the power to restrict exports to a third country whose…
War economy
London: the conference that talked to investors, not only donors
The recovery conference in London in June 2023 did something the earlier ones had not. It addressed private capital directly, and it spent most of its…
Foreign relations
Reform assessed in public, twice a year
By mid-2023 Ukraine had entered a rhythm that most candidate countries find uncomfortable: a published external assessment of what has and has not been done.
War economy
Fifty billion, tied to a plan
In June 2023 the European Commission proposed a single instrument to carry support for four years — grants, loans and investment guarantees together, released against a…
EU & Euro-Atlantic Integration
Aligning the customs code
Customs alignment is invisible until you stand at a border and count the hours. It is one of the most practically consequential chapters there is.
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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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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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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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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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