Twenty-five years. The free trade area with the EU took effect in January, russia closed its own preferential regime in response, and Ukrainian trade flows rearranged…
A new government in April, electronic procurement becoming mandatory, and a recovery underway that was structurally different from the one that preceded the crisis.
A summer night that belongs to the young, and to water.
A short note on the anniversary, with the substance left to those it belongs to.
A greeting for the day, and a note on what a pattern is actually recording.
A kitchen built on fermentation, sour dairy, freshwater fish and buckwheat, in a country that grows most of what it eats. The food is regional in…
Tax reform is usually described in terms of rates. For a company the rate is the least of it; the administration is what determines whether the…
The basket, the cloth over it, and the queue outside the church at seven in the morning.
The EU free trade area took effect on 1 January and eastern trade restrictions took effect the same day. Ukrainian exporters changed direction in a single…
Ukraine's Black Sea ports get the attention, but the small Danube terminals and the Adriatic and Baltic routes through neighbouring countries have repeatedly determined what could…
The most common expensive mistake a foreign supplier makes here is appointing the first enthusiastic distributor they meet on exclusive terms.
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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