The worst macroeconomic year since 1994 is also the year Ukraine cleaned out half its banking system, restructured its sovereign debt and raised gas tariffs to…
Household energy tariffs were raised substantially in April — the measure every government had declined since 2005. It was the single most consequential economic reform of…
The shortest night of the year, observed the way it has been observed for a very long time.
A short greeting in a year of rebuilding institutions, kept short as always.
Fifty days after Easter, houses fill with cut birch and floor herbs, and the smell is the point. Underneath the church feast is a rite about…
By 2015 the day had grown from a student idea into something worn across the whole country, and the reasons people wore it had changed.
Expectations of what outside support can accomplish are routinely set far above what any external actor is capable of. Separating the categories makes both the support…
The currency fell sharply in February before stabilising, inflation reached its highest level since the 1990s, and a larger multi-year IMF programme replaced the one agreed…
Ukraine replaced its traffic police entirely, in public, in a matter of months. It is the most visible reform the country has done and the lessons…
A greeting in a year when a great many households were being held together by one person doing the work of two.
A change of government, a floated currency, a lost region, an armed conflict, a signed trade agreement and a broken energy dependency — all within twelve…
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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