Economy & Macro
Customs, before and after
For years the customs service was the single biggest complaint of importers in Ukraine. What changed, what did not, and what an importer should expect now.
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Society & Regions
The education system, assessed
Ukrainian education has one outstanding structural achievement and one persistent weakness, and both matter to anyone hiring here.
Folklore & Esoterica
Petrykivka painting
A decorative painting tradition from one village, made with a cat-hair brush and a finger, and recognised internationally as intangible heritage.
Trade & Investment
Where to argue: courts, arbitration and the clause nobody reads
The dispute resolution clause is agreed in the last ten minutes of a negotiation and decides everything if the deal goes wrong.
Politics & Governance
Opening the land market: a twenty-year argument
The moratorium on selling farmland lasted two decades and was defended by people with a serious case. Understanding that case explains the shape of the eventual…
Folklore & Esoterica
The rushnyk: the cloth that marks every threshold
A long embroidered cloth appears at every important moment of a life here: birth, marriage, welcome, burial. It is the same object used four different ways.
Politics & Governance
Administering pensions to twelve million people
The largest single line in the budget is paid out monthly to more than a fifth of the population. The administration of it is a logistics…
Economy & Macro
The pandemic year: a milder contraction on a weaker base
Ukraine's 2020 downturn was shallower than 2009 or 2015, which surprised people who assumed a weak health system meant a worse economic outcome. The explanation is…
National Days & Anniversaries
Easter 2020
The Easter of empty churches. Baskets were blessed at a distance, families met on screens, and the paska was baked anyway.
Politics & Governance
The New Ukrainian School
Ukraine rewrote what a school day looks like: twelve years instead of eleven, competences instead of memorisation, and a different relationship between teacher and pupil.
Agriculture & Food
The grain terminals that were built
Between 2010 and 2021 private investors built deep-water grain handling capacity on the Black Sea coast. That capital is why the export volumes were possible.
Quarterly & Annual Reports
Ukraine Market Report — Q1 2020
A pandemic quarantine from March, a rapid reversal of the portfolio inflows that had strengthened the currency, and a land market law passed at the end…
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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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