Trade & Investment
Entering the Ukrainian market: the checklist
The questions a company should answer before committing to Ukraine, in the order that actually matters rather than the order they usually get asked.
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Folklore & Esoterica
The pysanka: geometry, wax and meaning
A pysanka is not a painted egg. It is a wax-resist batik executed on a curved surface with no margin for error, carrying an ornamental vocabulary…
Agriculture & Food
Yields, and the gap that closed
Ukrainian grain yields roughly doubled over two decades on the same soil. Understanding how is more useful than admiring that it happened.
EU & Euro-Atlantic Integration
Sanitary and phytosanitary alignment
Food safety alignment is the chapter that produces the most immediate commercial results, because each completed step opens a specific export permission.
EU & Euro-Atlantic Integration
Approximation: adopting a body of law
A candidate country has to bring tens of thousands of pages of law into its own legal order. The obstacle is not willingness; it is drafting…
Economy & Macro
Inflation targeting, explained from a purchasing desk
What a formal inflation target actually does for a business is remove one variable from a plan, and that is worth more than it sounds.
Trade & Investment
Diagonal cumulation and why it changes sourcing
One of the least discussed trade mechanisms decides where a manufacturer buys its inputs. Understanding it is worth more than reading a tariff schedule.
Quarterly & Annual Reports
Ukraine Annual Review 2017: growth returns and the constraint changes
A second year of recovery, visa-free travel, the association agreement fully in force, and the emergence of a labour shortage that would bind harder than any…
Society & Regions
Ukrainians working abroad
Labour migration from Ukraine has been one of the largest movements of working people in Europe for two decades. It is usually discussed as a loss…
Folklore & Esoterica
Koliada and the winter singing
The carols sung in Ukraine at Christmas divide into two kinds, and the older kind has nothing to do with Christmas at all.
National Days & Anniversaries
Day of Unity 2018
A January day, and a foreigner's note on the difference between a country being united and a country agreeing.
Quarterly & Annual Reports
Ukraine Market Report — Q4 2017
A second full year of growth, EU exports rising as certifications accumulated, and labour shortage emerging as the constraint that would define the following five years.
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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