Odesa, Constanta, the Danube, the Polish rail gauge break and the Turkish ports. The region's freight economics are a study in substitution, and the last decade…
Ukraine built a system requiring officials to publish what they own, in a searchable public database. The design decisions behind it explain why it worked and…
The EU free trade area entered force in 2016. The tariff schedule changed on day one and almost nothing else did, because tariffs were never the…
The deepest contraction of the period and the largest volume of structural reform since independence, in the same twelve months. The connection between those two facts…
Ukraine ended direct gas purchases from russia and replaced them with supply from Europe. The mechanism that made it possible is worth understanding in detail.
A January day about holding together, in a decade that tested the idea.
Gas imports from the eastern direction ceased entirely in November, the free trade area with the EU took effect on 1 January, and the deepest two-year…
The trade agreement with the European Union is usually discussed as a political milestone. Read as an operating manual, it tells a company exactly what it…
Chernozem is described in every article about Ukrainian agriculture and explained in almost none of them. What makes it exceptional, how much of it there is…
A currency defended at a fixed rate looks stable until the day it is not, and then it moves by half in a fortnight. Ukraine learned…
The Association Agreement is remembered as a political document because of what happened around its signature. It is actually a thousand pages of technical obligation with…
A Christmas greeting, and a note on the dish that is served first and eaten last.
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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