Society & Regions
Digital skills and who is left out
When a state moves its services onto a phone, the people without the phone or the skill do not become invisible. They become harder to serve.
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Trade & Investment
Warehousing and the distribution map
Where stock sits determines delivery time, working capital and how much of the country a company can actually serve. The map was redrawn after 2022.
Quarterly & Annual Reports
Ukraine Market Report — Q3 2021
A record harvest against a global energy price shock. The same quarter delivered the best agricultural conditions in the country's history and the worst gas import…
Society & Regions
Getting around a Ukrainian city
Ukrainian cities have excellent bones for public transport and have spent thirty years partly dismantling them. That is now reversing.
Economy & Macro
What things actually cost here
A practical comparison of the input costs that determine whether a manufacturing operation makes sense in Ukraine rather than in Poland, Romania or Turkey.
Society & Regions
Sport, clubs and civic identity
Sport in Ukraine carries civic weight beyond the results, and understanding the club structure explains a good deal about the cities they belong to.
Trade & Investment
Asphalt plant technology and the Ukrainian specification
Written from the trade: what a Ukrainian road programme asks of an asphalt plant, and the adaptations European technology needed to meet it.
Agriculture & Food
Financing a season
A farm spends everything in spring and earns everything in autumn. The gap between those two facts is the whole of agricultural finance.
National Days & Anniversaries
Knowledge Day, 1 September 2021
A first-of-September greeting for a cohort returning to a yard they had barely seen.
National Days & Anniversaries
Independence Day 2021: thirty years, measured honestly
Three decades of independence, a land market that finally opened in July, an energy price shock building in Europe, and a military build-up on the border…
Folklore & Esoterica
Mourning customs and the memorial days
The relationship with the dead here is maintained on a schedule. Certain days belong to them, and on those days the cemetery is the busiest place…
Energy & Infrastructure
The bridges: condition, replacement and the engineering backlog
A country has thousands of bridges and almost never thinks about them. They have design lives, and a large share of Ukraine's reached the end of…
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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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