Agriculture & Food
Getting grain to a ship
The gap between the farm gate price and the port price is the whole story of Ukrainian agriculture. Understanding where that money goes explains more than…
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Trade & Investment
Technical regulations and the CE mark question
Manufacturers frequently ask whether they can put a CE mark on a product made in Ukraine. The answer is more interesting than a simple yes or…
Folklore & Esoterica
Harvest end and the last sheaf
The end of the harvest was marked with a wreath, a last sheaf and a delivery to the household. The sheaf then stood in the corner…
Economy & Macro
What the IMF programmes actually asked for
The conditionality is publicly available and reads as a reform list. Most of it is what a domestic reformer would have proposed anyway, which is why…
Folklore & Esoterica
Green week and the household dressed in leaves
For one week in early summer, houses are decorated with cut branches and the floor is covered with herbs. It is one of the least Christian…
Society & Regions
Kyiv as an economy in its own right
The capital accounts for a share of national output far larger than its share of population, which is normal for a capital and has consequences worth…
National Days & Anniversaries
8 March 2020
A greeting to the women of Ukraine, at the start of an unusual spring.
Society & Regions
The regional map of Ukrainian output
Ukraine is often discussed as one economy. It is more usefully understood as several, with very different structures, and the differences explain most of what happens…
Economy & Macro
Diia and the disappearance of the queue
The measure of a digital government reform is not the app. It is the hours it deletes. For a company operating here, the change between 2015…
Folklore & Esoterica
Vertep: the travelling puppet nativity
A two-storey wooden box carried from house to house at Christmas, with scripture performed on the upper level and something considerably less reverent on the lower.
Energy & Infrastructure
Unbundling Naftogaz
Separating the pipeline from the company that sells gas through it sounds like an accounting change. It is the single most important structural reform in the…
Trade & Investment
Authorised Economic Operator status, and what it saved us
AEO status is a certification that a customs administration gives a company it has decided to trust. Getting it is tedious. Holding it changes what a…
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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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