Folklore & Esoterica
Wells, springs and the beliefs attached to water
Water is treated as a boundary, a remedy and a witness. Most of the practices around it turn out to have a public health logic underneath.
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Trade & Investment
The Solidarity Lanes, and moving grain without a sea
When the ports closed, a country that exported most of its grain by ship had to move it by rail and road instead. The logistics of…
National Days & Anniversaries
Ivana Kupala, 7 July 2022
A midsummer greeting in a year when open fires and river gatherings were not possible in most of the country.
War economy
Lugano: the conference that set the rules before the money
In July 2022 the recovery conference in Lugano produced something more durable than pledges. It produced principles — transparency, reform, local ownership — written into the…
Folklore & Esoterica
Charms and spoken formulas
The spoken charm is a genuine literary genre with a stable structure, a fixed set of images and a considerable body of collected text.
Culture and identity
Borscht enters the UNESCO list, and the reason is not culinary
On 1 July 2022 UNESCO inscribed the culture of Ukrainian borscht cooking on its list of intangible heritage in need of urgent safeguarding. It sounds like…
Foreign relations
Permits abolished: the road transport agreement
Ukrainian hauliers had always operated on a quota of permits. In 2022 the European Union suspended the quota entirely, and a lorry could run to any…
Domestic balance
From emergency connection to commercial export
In March the Ukrainian grid was connected to Europe as an emergency measure. By the end of June it was selling electricity into the European market…
EU & Euro-Atlantic Integration
Candidate status: what it gives, what it does not, and the seven conditions
Granted on 23 June, four months after application. It confers no new market access. What it does is convert a political aspiration into a file with…
National Days & Anniversaries
Constitution Day, 28 June 2022
A short note on the anniversary in a year when the document was being defended rather than debated.
EU & Euro-Atlantic Integration
Joining the common transit system
A lorry crossing three borders used to need a customs procedure at each. Under common transit it needs one, opened at the start and closed at…
Foreign relations
Candidate status, granted in June
On 23 June 2022 the European Council granted Ukraine the status of candidate for European Union membership, four months after the application. It came with seven…
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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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Elections, governments, parliamentary arithmetic and the institutional reforms that shape the business environment.
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Gas, electricity, transit, nuclear generation, ports and the transport corridors that connect Ukraine to its markets.
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Damage assessment, recovery financing, construction capacity and the institutions being built to spend it well.
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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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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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