National Days & Anniversaries
New Year 2016
A New Year greeting from the middle of a difficult decade, written by someone who had by then been here long enough to have opinions about…
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Energy & Infrastructure
Air links: how a country connects to its markets, and what closing them costs
Route development through the 2010s did more for Ukrainian services exports and tourism than any policy. Then the airspace closed, and the cost of that closure…
National Days & Anniversaries
Ukraine's public holidays and the working calendar
Every statutory holiday, what each one commemorates, the 2023 calendar reform that moved several of them, and the practical effect on production, logistics and staffing.
Economy & Macro
The 2015 reform record: what was actually achieved in the worst year
The economy contracted sharply, the currency lost most of its value and the country was at war. It was also the year in which more structural…
National Days & Anniversaries
St Nicholas Day, 19 December 2015
A greeting for the quiet gift, and for the people who arrange them for children who are not their own.
Society & Regions
The restaurant scene and what it says about the consumer market
Kyiv's dining sector improved faster than incomes did, which is unusual and instructive. What drove it was a domestic produce movement, a devalued currency and a…
National Days & Anniversaries
Holodomor Remembrance Day, 28 November 2015
A candle in the window on the fourth Saturday of November.
National Days & Anniversaries
Ukrainian Language Day, 9 November 2015
A day for a language, and a note on how much of one lives in its jokes.
Economy & Macro
What 2014 and 2015 taught about balance sheets
The second currency shock in six years destroyed companies that had survived the first one, and the reason was almost always the same line on the…
Quarterly & Annual Reports
Ukraine Market Report — Q3 2015
A debt restructuring agreement with private creditors in August removed the immediate repayment pressure, and an electronic procurement system began piloting that would become one of…
Economy & Macro
The 2015 restructuring: what the GDP warrants really cost
A twenty per cent haircut, four years of maturity extension and higher coupons — plus an instrument that pays creditors a share of future growth. The…
National Days & Anniversaries
Knowledge Day, 1 September 2015
A first-of-September greeting for a year when a number of children in the yard had arrived from somewhere else.
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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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