Culture and identity
Copying the archive before it can be lost
A physical collection can be evacuated. A digital one can be copied, and a copy in three countries cannot be destroyed by anything. Through 2022 an…
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National Days & Anniversaries
Day of Ukrainian Writing and Language 2022
Eighteen years after arriving unable to say anything, a note on what learning a language actually gives you, written on the day set aside for it.
Society & Regions
Living on a Ukrainian pension
Ukraine has a very large pensioner population and a pension that does not cover a normal life. How households manage is worth describing precisely.
War economy
One table for everyone paying for the rebuild
By late 2022 dozens of governments and institutions were committing money to Ukraine recovery. Without a single coordinating structure, that would have produced overlap, gaps and…
EU & Euro-Atlantic Integration
Machinery Directive compliance for the Ukrainian market
An importer placing machinery on the market carries obligations that most importers do not know they have, and a file they are expected to be able…
Folklore & Esoterica
The Kyiv-Mohyla Academy and the transmission of learning
An institution founded in the seventeenth century, closed in the nineteenth, and refounded in the twentieth. What it transmitted across those gaps is the interesting part.
Quarterly & Annual Reports
Ukraine Market Report — Q3 2022
A grain corridor arrangement signed in Istanbul in July reopened maritime exports from three ports, and a currency adjustment in the same month restored some of…
Trade & Investment
Getting goods in: the routes and what each costs
There are four ways to get a container into Ukraine and they differ by a factor of several in cost and by weeks in time. Choosing…
Foreign relations
One declaration for the whole route: joining common transit
On 1 October 2022 Ukraine acceded to the Convention on a Common Transit Procedure. For a lorry crossing three borders, it replaced three sets of paperwork…
Energy & Infrastructure
Moving the state to the cloud
In 2022 Ukraine changed its own law so that state data could be held outside the country, then moved it. The decision looks obvious now and…
Folklore & Esoterica
Skovoroda: the wandering philosopher and the three worlds
An eighteenth-century philosopher who refused every position offered to him and spent thirty years walking between villages. He is read again now, and the reasons say…
Domestic balance
The Kharkiv region, and clearance at agricultural scale
The territory recovered in the Kharkiv region in September 2022 was not mostly urban. It was farmland, and clearing farmland is a different problem with a…
Browse the analyses
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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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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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