Folklore & Esoterica
The regional map of the embroidered shirt
A vyshyvanka is not one thing. The colour, the stitch and the placement change from region to region, and a specialist can read a shirt like…
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Agriculture & Food
The Dnipro as a grain corridor
A barge carries what dozens of lorries would, at a fraction of the fuel. Ukraine has a large navigable river and used it very little.
Energy & Infrastructure
Renewables before and after
Ukraine built a substantial renewable sector quickly using a generous support scheme, then discovered what happens when a support scheme is too generous.
Trade & Investment
Standards convergence, from a machinery supplier view
Ukraine replaced a Soviet standards system with European standards. For a machinery supplier that removed a genuine barrier and created a period of confusion.
Quarterly & Annual Reports
Ukraine Market Report — Q1 2021
Recovery from the pandemic contraction, rising global commodity prices lifting export earnings, and preparation for a land market that would open in July after twenty years…
Society & Regions
Odesa as a port city and a market
A city built to be a port has a commercial character that outlasts any particular trade. Odesa has been through several and has kept the character.
Folklore & Esoterica
The didukh: a sheaf in the corner of the room
On Christmas Eve a sheaf of wheat is brought into the house and stood in the corner of honour. It is one of the oldest surviving…
Economy & Macro
The IT sector that grew while everything else argued
Software services became one of Ukraine's largest exports during a period when very little else was going well. The reasons are worth understanding because they are…
Economy & Macro
What Ukraine actually produces
The economy is usually described by whatever sector is in the news. The composition of output is a more useful starting point and it has shifted…
Society & Regions
Dnipro: industry, engineering and adaptation
A heavy industrial city with an engineering tradition, an unusually entrepreneurial business culture and a recent role nobody planned for it.
Energy & Infrastructure
The nuclear fleet and the fuel switch
Ukraine generates a very large share of its electricity from nuclear power using Soviet-designed reactors. Changing who supplies the fuel for those reactors took fifteen years…
EU & Euro-Atlantic Integration
The Common Aviation Area agreement
An aviation agreement is not about aircraft. It is about who is allowed to fly which route, and changing that changes an economy.
Browse the analyses
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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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