Reconstruction & Recovery
Counting the damage properly
Every reconstruction discussion begins with a total. What determines whether that number means anything is the methodology behind it, which almost nobody reads.
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National Days & Anniversaries
Christmas, 7 January 2023
A Christmas greeting for a January when households were marking it on two different dates for the first time.
National Days & Anniversaries
New Year, 1 January 2023
A new year greeting written in a winter of blackouts, from a city that celebrated anyway and quietly.
National Days & Anniversaries
St Nicholas Day, 19 December 2022
A greeting for a St Nicholas morning that arrived in the dark, in the first winter of blackouts.
War economy
Money for a whole year, agreed in advance
In December 2022 the European Union agreed a macro-financial assistance package covering the whole of the following year. After ten months of emergency tranches, Ukraine could…
Foreign relations
The price cap: a sanction designed not to remove the oil
An embargo removes a supplier from the market and the price goes up. The cap that took effect in December 2022 tried something subtler: let the…
Culture and identity
Teaching through a blackout
An online school year assumes electricity and internet. In the winter of 2022 Ukraine had neither reliably, and the education system had to be redesigned around…
Humanitarian dimension
A hospital cannot run on a schedule of outages
Most buildings can wait for the power to come back. An operating theatre, a neonatal unit and a dialysis ward cannot. Keeping hospitals energised through the…
National Days & Anniversaries
Holodomor Remembrance Day, 26 November 2022
A remembrance message in a year of blackouts, when the candle in the window was not only symbolic.
Humanitarian dimension
A warm room, a socket and a kettle
When the power goes out in November, the humanitarian question becomes very simple and very physical. The answer that winter was thousands of heated points with…
Domestic balance
Generators, transformers and the winter the grid was attacked
From October 2022 the energy system came under sustained attack. What arrived from Europe in response was not a policy document. It was autotransformers on low-loaders…
Domestic balance
Kherson: clearance begins the day after
When Kherson was liberated in November 2022, the sappers went in almost immediately. Clearance is not what happens after recovery. It is the thing that has…
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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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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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