Ukraine holds more underground gas storage capacity than any other country in Europe. That asset is strategic, commercial and consistently underused.
Growth, inflation at target, a strong currency, record reserves, an open electricity market and a five-year transit agreement. It was the best macroeconomic year of the…
A January day about togetherness, weeks before a year that would require everyone to stay apart.
A five-year gas transit agreement was concluded at the end of December alongside a settlement of the outstanding arbitration, removing the largest single external uncertainty going…
Of all the reforms of the last decade, decentralisation is the one whose effects I can see from a car window. It gave communities their own…
A Christmas greeting at the start of a decade, and a note on the dish that decides the evening.
Signed with hours to spare on 30 December: five years, firm booked capacity, European network rules, and the settlement of arbitration claims. The structure matters more…
A new year greeting at the start of a new decade, written before anyone knew what the year would contain.
The nineteenth of December, gifts under the pillow, and the twig that is threatened and never delivered.
Fifteen years of lighting a candle on the fourth Saturday of November, and a short note on why a foreigner keeps doing it.
The two largest economies on the Black Sea trade heavily with each other in a pattern that is genuinely complementary rather than competitive. The structure of…
Fifteen years of speaking it, and a practical note for anyone arriving now and wondering whether it is worth the effort.
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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