Energy & Infrastructure
Telecommunications that stayed up
A mobile network needs power at every base station. Keeping a country connected through repeated blackouts was a logistics operation more than a technical one.
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Domestic balance
Filling the storage before the cold
Ukraine holds some of the largest gas storage capacity in Europe. Filling it before the winter of 2022 was a financing problem more than an engineering…
Folklore & Esoterica
The bandura and its repertoire
The bandura is not simply a national instrument. It is a specific technology built for a specific job, and the job was carrying long narrative songs.
Culture and identity
A school year that began with a shelter requirement
On 1 September 2022 the Ukrainian school year opened under a rule nobody had needed before: a school could hold classes in person only if it…
National Days & Anniversaries
Knowledge Day 2022
The first of September in the first war year, when a school could only teach in person if it had a shelter for everyone inside it.
Humanitarian dimension
Supplying a health system that cannot pause
A health service still has to treat diabetes, deliver babies and manage cancer while it treats trauma. Keeping the ordinary side of medicine supplied was as…
National Days & Anniversaries
Independence Day 2022: the anniversary that fell on the six-month mark
Thirty-one years of independence and six months of full-scale war fall on the same date. What the economy looks like when a third of it disappears…
Agriculture & Food
Ukraine and the global food supply
When Ukrainian grain stops moving, the effect is not felt in Europe. It is felt in North Africa, the Middle East and East Africa, where the…
Economy & Macro
The slow construction of a capital market
Ukraine has a functioning government bond market and almost no equity market. The asymmetry is not an accident and it tells you what infrastructure exists.
Agriculture & Food
Overland export and the neighbours
When the sea closed, grain went west by rail and road through four countries. The route worked, and it produced frictions that were entirely predictable.
Trade & Investment
Companies that moved west and kept operating
Several thousand businesses physically relocated within Ukraine and restarted production. What the successful ones had in common is instructive for anyone thinking about continuity planning.
War economy
The trust fund that paid the salaries
By mid-2022 the World Bank administered channel was moving contributions from many governments into Ukrainian budget spending — teachers, doctors, emergency workers, pensions — with verification…
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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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