For thirty years Ukraine was the largest gas corridor into Europe. That position produced revenue, leverage and vulnerability in roughly equal measure.
Of every long-run variable that determines what this economy can become, population is the one that moves slowest and matters most. It deserves to be stated…
A Christmas greeting, and a note on the carollers who now knock on apartment doors instead of village gates.
Fifteen New Years here, and the discovery that a foreigner eventually acquires a second set of holidays without giving up the first.
A greeting for the morning when children find something small under the pillow, and a word for the people who arrange it for children who have…
Negotiations opened in 2007 and the agreement took until 2022 to sign. The delay is instructive: it was not about tariffs on the bulk of trade…
A day for the names that were recorded and the ones that were not.
A language day greeting, and the dictation that half the country writes at the same time.
Steady growth, an IT sector that had quietly become one of the country's largest export earners, and a gas transit contract expiring at the end of…
The data is better than its reputation and thinner in specific places. Knowing which places is the difference between a useful figure and a misleading one.
A customer buying industrial equipment is not buying a machine. They are buying fifteen years of that machine working, and everything that determines whether it does.
The year the New Ukrainian School reform reached the first grade, and a generation started under a different curriculum from the one their older siblings had.
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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