Ukraine entered the pandemic with more hospital beds per head than most of Europe and worse outcomes than almost all of it. The contradiction explains the…
Ukraine built one of the most complete citizen-facing digital states anywhere. The interesting part is not the app; it is what had to exist underneath it.
A greeting in a year when flowers were bought with a mask on and delivered at arm's length.
Ukraine has reformed its judiciary repeatedly. Understanding why it took several attempts explains more than any single verdict on whether it worked.
Ukraine produces most of the gas it uses and has spent two decades trying to close the remainder. The obstacle has been drilling capacity and licensing…
For twenty years agricultural land in Ukraine could not be sold. In July 2021 that ended, under conditions designed to answer the fears that had kept…
A pandemic contraction, a capital flow reversal and an institutional dispute — and a financial system that absorbed all three without becoming part of the problem.
A unity day greeting in a year when a chain of people holding hands was not something anyone could organise.
A constitutional court decision in October struck down parts of the asset declaration system, producing a dispute over institutional authority that took months to resolve and…
A Christmas greeting for a year when the twelve dishes were cooked for fewer people than usual.
A new year greeting after a year spent mostly indoors, and a note on the smallest new year I have seen here.
A greeting for a December when a great many things happened at a distance.
A continuous record of the Ukrainian market, quarter by quarter and year by year: output, currency, trade, sectors and what each period settled.
Growth, inflation, the hryvnia, budgets and the macro-financial programmes that keep Ukraine's economy running.
Foreign trade flows, free trade agreements, customs practice and the practical mechanics of entering the Ukrainian market.
Elections, governments, parliamentary arithmetic and the institutional reforms that shape the business environment.
Gas, electricity, transit, nuclear generation, ports and the transport corridors that connect Ukraine to its markets.
Damage assessment, recovery financing, construction capacity and the institutions being built to spend it well.
The Association Agreement, DCFTA, candidate status, accession negotiations and the regulatory convergence behind them.
Grain, oilseeds, the land market, export logistics and Ukraine's role in global food supply.
Demography, labour, migration, regional economies and the human context behind the numbers.
The ritual year, the symbols embroidered into cloth and painted onto eggs, the Carpathian practitioners and the philosophers — the older layer beneath modern Ukraine.
Independence Day and the other dates in Ukraine's calendar, each read against the state of the country in that year.
The primary sources this archive rests on. All of them official bodies or institutional data providers.
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