National Days & Anniversaries
Constitution Day, 28 June 2019
A greeting for Constitution Day, kept to the anniversary itself.
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Politics & Governance
Regulatory impact assessment, and the consultations worth joining
A draft regulation is published before it binds anybody, with a window for comment. Most companies discover the rule after it applies and complain instead.
Folklore & Esoterica
The molfar: the Carpathian practitioner
Described in popular writing as a wizard, the molfar was in practice a specialist in a mountain community with several overlapping and fairly practical functions.
Society & Regions
Ukrainian universities and the international student
Written as someone who studied here: the system has real strengths, real weaknesses and a large international enrolment that is worth understanding honestly.
Economy & Macro
The end of currency control as we knew it
Ukraine replaced a Soviet-era currency control regime with a modern framework, and the change is felt weekly by anyone running a treasury function.
Politics & Governance
The language law, explained carefully
For a business the language law is a compliance question with a clear answer, and it is far less complicated than the political discussion around it…
National Days & Anniversaries
Vyshyvanka Day 2019
On the third Thursday of May the office looks different, and a garment does something a logo never could.
Energy & Infrastructure
The cheapest energy is the energy not used
Ukraine inherited some of the least efficient buildings in Europe. Fixing that is duller than building generation and worth considerably more.
Trade & Investment
Protecting a brand and a design here
Registering a trademark in Ukraine is straightforward. Everything that follows depends on decisions taken at registration, and most companies take them carelessly.
Politics & Governance
An election that was about the system itself, and what a mandate for change can and cannot do
The 2019 result was an unusually clear verdict on the political class as a whole rather than on a policy direction. That kind of mandate creates…
Agriculture & Food
The farm machinery market
What Ukrainian agriculture buys, on what finance, and why the service network matters more than the purchase price.
National Days & Anniversaries
Easter, 28 April 2019
An Easter greeting, and a note on the plate that goes to the neighbour.
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
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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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