The Ukrainian media landscape shifted from television owned by a small number of people to messaging channels owned by nobody in particular. Both arrangements have problems.
The prediction in early 2022 was that the Ukrainian state would stop functioning. Understanding why it did not is more useful than celebrating that it did…
Three ports reopened under a monitored corridor with a joint coordination centre. The first vessel sailed this week. For anyone in the grain trade, the operational…
The grain corridor is remembered as a diplomatic achievement. It was also a shipping operation with an inspection regime, and the logistics were as difficult as…
Martial law changes a number of things a company needs to know about, and most of them are not the ones people expect.
In Ukrainian custom certain birds are not decoration. They are attached to specific ideas — arrival, departure, the household, the soul — and the attachments are…
On 22 July 2022 an arrangement was reached in Istanbul to move Ukrainian grain out through the Black Sea. The first vessel sailed in August. For…
The seventh package of July 2022 added a ban on russian gold. It also did something less noticed and more important: it wrote explicit carve-outs to…
Ukrainian railways carry freight, passengers, evacuations and diplomats. They are also one of the country's largest electricity consumers, which makes them an energy story.
Ukraine has an unusually strong capacity for self-organisation without instruction. Where that came from, and what it is not, is worth setting out carefully.
A new date in the calendar, marking a very old thing: the long line of Ukrainian statehood running back to Kyivan rus.
Land corridors to the EU absorbed what the ports could not, candidate status was granted in June, and the constraint on the entire economy became the…
A continuous record of the Ukrainian market, quarter by quarter and year by year: output, currency, trade, sectors and what each period settled.
Growth, inflation, the hryvnia, budgets and the macro-financial programmes that keep Ukraine's economy running.
Foreign trade flows, free trade agreements, customs practice and the practical mechanics of entering the Ukrainian market.
Elections, governments, parliamentary arithmetic and the institutional reforms that shape the business environment.
Gas, electricity, transit, nuclear generation, ports and the transport corridors that connect Ukraine to its markets.
Damage assessment, recovery financing, construction capacity and the institutions being built to spend it well.
The Association Agreement, DCFTA, candidate status, accession negotiations and the regulatory convergence behind them.
Grain, oilseeds, the land market, export logistics and Ukraine's role in global food supply.
Demography, labour, migration, regional economies and the human context behind the numbers.
The ritual year, the symbols embroidered into cloth and painted onto eggs, the Carpathian practitioners and the philosophers — the older layer beneath modern Ukraine.
Independence Day and the other dates in Ukraine's calendar, each read against the state of the country in that year.
The primary sources this archive rests on. All of them official bodies or institutional data providers.
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