Agriculture & Food
The quiet dominance in honey
Ukraine is one of the largest honey exporters in the world, the industry is built on smallholders rather than corporations, and almost nobody outside the trade…
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National Days & Anniversaries
Ivana Kupala 2020
Midsummer in a pandemic year, when the outdoor festival turned out to be the one that could still happen.
Energy & Infrastructure
The Black Sea ports and their capacity
Odesa, Chornomorsk and Pivdennyi are not interchangeable. Depth, berth length and hinterland connection decide what each can actually do.
National Days & Anniversaries
Constitution Day 2020
A short greeting from a strange summer, when public occasions had mostly moved indoors or online.
Trade & Investment
The port concessions that worked
Two Ukrainian port terminals were transferred to private operation while remaining in state ownership. They are the clearest domestic evidence that the model can work here.
Agriculture & Food
Dairy: consolidation and quality
Ukrainian dairy has been reorganising for twenty years, moving milk production from household cows to commercial herds. The reason is a grading standard.
Folklore & Esoterica
Folk medicine and the village healer
Village healing combined herbs that worked, charms that did not, and a psychological framework that mattered more than either. Separating the three is the interesting part.
Trade & Investment
Public-private partnership, and why so few happen
Ukraine has a public-private partnership law and very few completed partnerships. The gap between the two is where the interesting analysis is.
Agriculture & Food
Organic production and the European buyer
Ukraine has substantial organic production and sells most of it as an anonymous input into someone else's branded product. That is a choice, and it can…
Energy & Infrastructure
The coal regions and a managed transition
Closing a coal mine is an engineering task that takes two years and a social task that takes twenty. Confusing the two is how transitions fail.
Politics & Governance
Why local elections matter to a supplier
A change of mayor changes procurement priorities, permit processing and which projects continue. For a company with local contracts this is not politics; it is planning.
National Days & Anniversaries
Vyshyvanka Day, 21 May 2020
A greeting for a day that moved online, and what happened when there was no street to walk down.
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
49
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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