National Days & Anniversaries
Christmas 2018
The seventh of January, and a note on kutia — the first dish, and the one nobody skips.
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National Days & Anniversaries
New Year, 1 January 2018
A new year greeting, and a note on the one dish that appears on every table regardless of anything else.
National Days & Anniversaries
St Nicholas Day, 19 December 2017
A greeting for the morning of the small gift, and a note on the saint himself, who was neither Ukrainian nor a myth.
National Days & Anniversaries
Holodomor Remembrance Day, 25 November 2017
A day observed with silence and a handful of grain.
National Days & Anniversaries
Ukrainian Language Day, 9 November 2017
A greeting for the day, from someone whose children learned it faster than he did.
Economy & Macro
Coming back to the international bond market
A country that has restructured its debt has to re-establish itself with investors who lost money. How that is done is a specific and repeatable process.
Quarterly & Annual Reports
Ukraine Market Report — Q3 2017
The association agreement entered fully into force on 1 September, and a set of social sector reforms passed in the autumn. The reform programme reached its…
Trade & Investment
What actually puts a country on an investment committee's agenda
Countries are not evaluated on their merits and then ranked. They enter consideration through specific channels, and a country that does not travel through one of…
National Days & Anniversaries
Knowledge Day 2017
The first of September, and the students who could now travel to Europe without a consular appointment.
Economy & Macro
Deregulation, one permit at a time
The most boring reform programme in Ukraine consisted of deleting individual permits from a list. It also did more measurable good than most of the exciting…
National Days & Anniversaries
Independence Day 2017: the year the border opened
Visa-free travel to the Schengen area began in June. Twenty-six years after independence, the most tangible change in ordinary life came not from an economic reform…
Quarterly & Annual Reports
Ukraine Market Report — Q2 2017
Visa-free travel to the Schengen area took effect in June. Its economic significance was not tourism — it was what it did to labour mobility and…
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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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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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