Society & Regions
Women in the Ukrainian workforce
Ukraine has high female labour force participation, high female educational attainment, and a persistent pay gap. All three facts have the same set of causes.
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Reconstruction & Recovery
Coordinating dozens of donors without chaos
The failure mode of large reconstruction efforts is not lack of money. It is forty donors funding the same visible project while nobody funds the sewer.
Economy & Macro
Reserves, and the return of a buffer
Foreign exchange reserves are an abstraction until you are importing on credit terms, at which point they are the reason your supplier extends them.
Culture and identity
Finishing a school year that nobody attended normally
In June 2023 a cohort finished secondary school having spent most of it online, and sat an admissions examination redesigned for a country under attack.
Culture and identity
Ukrainian icons on the walls of the Louvre
In the middle of 2023 a handful of Byzantine icons from a damaged Kyiv museum went on show in Paris. Protecting them and showing them turned…
Domestic balance
Clearing land is the slowest work there is
Ukraine became one of the most heavily mined countries in the world, and the second quarter of 2023 made the problem harder in a way nobody…
Humanitarian dimension
Kakhovka: water, and everything that depends on it
The destruction of the Kakhovka dam in June 2023 was a flood emergency for a few days and a water supply emergency for years. The response…
Domestic balance
What the engineers did with the first quiet summer
After surviving one winter of attacks on the grid, Ukrainian power engineers had a few warm months to make the second winter less dangerous. They used…
National Days & Anniversaries
Vyshyvanka Day 2023
The third Thursday of May, and a shirt that has become one of the most widely recognised garments in Europe.
Society & Regions
Kharkiv: universities, engineering and resilience
Kharkiv is a university and engineering city that happens to be forty kilometres from a border. Both halves of that sentence explain what has happened to…
EU & Euro-Atlantic Integration
Opening accession negotiations
The decision to open negotiations is a political act with a technical consequence: it starts a process that runs on documents rather than declarations.
National Days & Anniversaries
Easter, 16 April 2023
An Easter greeting for a second spring under difficult conditions.
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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
47
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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