Society & Regions
The small cities nobody writes about
Most Ukrainians do not live in Kyiv, Lviv or Odesa. They live in towns of thirty to a hundred thousand people, and those towns have a…
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National Days & Anniversaries
Easter 2022
The baskets were still filled and still blessed. That is the whole of what I want to say about this one.
Economy & Macro
How the shock propagated: the war's economic effects beyond Ukraine
Four transmission channels carried the 2022 shock outward — energy, food, migration and defence spending — and each one worked on a different timescale with different…
Domestic balance
Clearing the Kyiv region, street by street
When the withdrawal from the Kyiv region came at the end of March 2022, the towns north of the capital could not simply be reoccupied. Every…
Quarterly & Annual Reports
Ukraine Market Report — Q1 2022
The full-scale invasion began on 24 February. The ports closed, the exchange rate was fixed, capital controls were imposed, and the banking and payments systems continued…
EU & Euro-Atlantic Integration
Candidate status and the seven recommendations
Candidate status came with seven conditions. Reading them now, what stands out is how specific they were and how directly they addressed the things a foreign…
War economy
Channels built to carry money at scale
Emergency lending works once. What Ukraine needed by spring 2022 was plumbing — standing channels through which many donors could send money to one budget without…
EU & Euro-Atlantic Integration
Roaming, digital services and the single market
Abolishing roaming charges sounds like a consumer convenience. It is one of the more effective integration measures available, for reasons that are not about phone bills.
Society & Regions
Lviv and the western shift
A city that was a tourist destination and a mid-sized IT centre became, within weeks, the logistics and relocation hub of the country. A good deal…
War economy
Before rebuilding: the work of counting what was lost
Reconstruction had not begun in the first weeks and could not have. What did begin was the assessment work underneath it — the registers, the methodologies…
Domestic balance
The grid that joined Europe in three weeks
Ukraine disconnected from the post-Soviet grid on 24 February for a scheduled isolation test and never reconnected. On 16 March its power system was synchronised with…
EU & Euro-Atlantic Integration
The road transport agreement and the open border
Liberalising road haulage between Ukraine and the European Union removed a permit system that had limited volumes for decades, and it produced a dispute worth understanding.
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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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