Agriculture & Food
Investing in Ukrainian agriculture now
The sector has good soil, restored export routes and land that can now be owned. It also has risks that a serious investor prices rather than…
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Folklore & Esoterica
The craft revival and its market
Traditional craft has a market again, which keeps it alive and simultaneously pulls it towards whatever sells. Both effects are real.
Reconstruction & Recovery
Italian industry and the recovery agenda
Italy hosted a recovery conference and has an industrial profile that maps unusually well onto what reconstruction actually needs.
Domestic balance
Handing the programme to its owner
International mine action operations eventually leave. What determines the outcome is whether a national authority exists that can run the programme afterwards.
Humanitarian dimension
A health system that has to plan for its own patients for forty years
By the end of 2025 Ukrainian health planning had a question no European system has had to answer recently: what does a large cohort of people…
Humanitarian dimension
A fourth winter package
By the winter of 2025 the humanitarian winter response had been refined into something quite precise, and the precision was forced by having less money.
Economy & Macro
What reconstruction spending does to an economy
Large inflows of reconstruction money are not simply good news for the receiving economy. Managing them badly produces inflation, an overvalued currency and a distorted labour…
Domestic balance
A fourth winter, and a grid that has learned
Entering the winter of 2025 the Ukrainian power system was still under attack and still standing. What changed was the design philosophy.
Society & Regions
The regions pulling ahead and falling behind
Regional economic divergence has widened sharply, and the pattern is not the one the pre-war map would have predicted.
Energy & Infrastructure
The ports at full working order
A port is working when a shipowner will send a vessel without a premium, an insurer will cover it and a buyer will sign for delivery…
Trade & Investment
Italy and Ukraine: machinery, design and reconstruction
The Italian commercial presence here is built on machinery, components and consumer brands, and it has the characteristic shape of Italian export: many small suppliers rather…
Reconstruction & Recovery
Turkish contractors and Ukrainian reconstruction
Turkish construction firms are among the most experienced in the world at building in difficult places. What they can offer Ukraine is specific, and so are…
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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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