National Days & Anniversaries
Vyshyvanka Day, 17 May 2018
A greeting for the day, and a note on the shirts worn by people with no Ukrainian family at all.
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Economy & Macro
The shadow economy, and the slow work of shrinking it
A large informal economy is usually described as a moral failing. It is more useful to read it as a price list: what people pay to…
Trade & Investment
Selling to the state through Prozorro
The public procurement system is open to any registered supplier, including a foreign one. Most losing bids lose on a technicality rather than on price.
Quarterly & Annual Reports
Ukraine Market Report — Q1 2018
Growth continuing, EU exports expanding as more producers cleared certification, and a labour market tightening quarter by quarter across every sector that employs people at scale.
National Days & Anniversaries
Easter 2018
A note on the paska itself: why it is baked tall, and why the recipe belongs to a specific grandmother rather than to a country.
Politics & Governance
Open data as public infrastructure
Ukraine publishes an unusual amount of state data openly. The value of that is not transparency in the abstract; it is what specific people do with…
Folklore & Esoterica
Ivana Kupala: fire, water and the shortest night
A midsummer festival of fire and water, paired at every point, and part of a complex that runs across the whole of Europe.
Agriculture & Food
Corn and the shift in the crop mix
Ukrainian farmers moved substantially into maize over two decades. The reasons are a good illustration of how a crop mix actually gets decided.
Economy & Macro
Prozorro and the open budget
Every public tender and every budget transaction is published. For a supplier that is not a governance story; it is a research tool.
EU & Euro-Atlantic Integration
Why the reform direction became irreversible, and what irreversible actually means
Ukrainian policy direction reversed in 2004 and again in 2010. It has not reversed since 2014, and the reason is not that the politics settled…
Politics & Governance
A professional civil service
A state is only as capable as the people in its ministries. Building a civil service that survives a change of government is the least visible…
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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
69
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
57
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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