Energy & Infrastructure
Exporting electricity to the European Union
A country that had electricity to sell westward was making a statement about its own system, and earning foreign currency while doing it.
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Culture and identity
Schools that opened their doors, and universities that made room
Under temporary protection, Ukrainian children had the right to schooling from the day they arrived. Across Europe, schools took them in mid-term, and universities and research…
Culture and identity
Sandbags around statues: protecting heritage in the first weeks
Museum staff packed collections into basements. Conservators abroad sent fire-retardant sheeting and packing materials. UNESCO began documenting damage. Very little of this made the news, and…
War economy
Emergency financing: keeping a state solvent
A government still has to pay pensions, salaries and hospitals while its revenue collapses. In March 2022 the international financial institutions moved faster than their own…
National Days & Anniversaries
International Women's Day, 8 March 2022
A short message on a day that arrived two weeks into something nobody was ready for.
Domestic balance
Demining: a capability that already existed, scaled up
Ukraine had been clearing explosive remnants in the east since 2015, with international operators working alongside the State Emergency Service. That experience became the foundation for…
Energy & Infrastructure
Synchronising with continental Europe
Connecting two power systems is not a matter of closing a switch. The engineering behind Ukraine joining the European grid is worth understanding properly, because it…
Humanitarian dimension
Medical evacuation: patients moved to European hospitals
A hospital under pressure cannot treat everyone. From March 2022 the EU Civil Protection Mechanism began moving Ukrainian patients to hospitals across Europe, and the World…
Humanitarian dimension
Temporary protection: a directive used for the first time
The European Union had a mechanism for mass displacement on its books since 2001 and had never once used it. On 4 March 2022 it was…
Foreign relations
The sanctions record: the first weeks
Within days, measures that had been discussed for years as theoretical options were adopted together by the European Union, the United States, the United Kingdom, Canada…
Foreign relations
The application signed on the fifth day
On 28 February 2022, five days into the full-scale invasion, Ukraine formally applied for European Union membership. Two weeks later it was answering the Commission questionnaire…
Trade & Investment
The Ukraine–Turkey free trade agreement
An agreement fifteen years in negotiation was signed in February 2022. What it contains, and what it will actually change, are worth separating.
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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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