National Days & Anniversaries
Day of Unity, 22 January 2015
A unity day greeting in a difficult January, kept to the gesture itself.
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Quarterly & Annual Reports
Ukraine Market Report — Q4 2014
A parliamentary election in October, a heating season covered without eastern gas, and a year closing with the deepest contraction since 2009 and the currency at…
National Days & Anniversaries
Christmas, 7 January 2015
A Christmas greeting for a year in which the empty place at the table was not only a tradition.
National Days & Anniversaries
New Year 2015
A New Year at the end of a year that changed a great deal, written without any attempt to summarise it.
National Days & Anniversaries
St Nicholas Day 2014
A small kindness on a dark December morning, in a year that had been long. The children got their gifts under the pillow, as they always…
National Days & Anniversaries
Holodomor Remembrance Day, 22 November 2014
A remembrance message in a year when the commemoration was harder to keep separate from the present.
National Days & Anniversaries
Ukrainian Language Day, 9 November 2014
A language day greeting in a year when more people around me changed which language they use daily.
Quarterly & Annual Reports
Ukraine Market Report — Q3 2014
Industrial output collapsing in the affected regions, currency depreciation continuing, and companies making the first relocation decisions that would reshape the industrial map.
Trade & Investment
Protecting capital where the courts are unreliable: what actually works
The standard advice is to have good contracts. In a jurisdiction where contract enforcement is uncertain, a good contract is necessary and nowhere near sufficient, and…
Society & Regions
Kharkiv: the second city, and what it was built for
Ukraine's first Soviet capital, an engineering and university centre of a million and a half people, forty kilometres from a border. Every one of those facts…
National Days & Anniversaries
Knowledge Day 2014
A first of September in a hard year, and the teachers who opened the doors anyway.
Society & Regions
The sector that grew through everything: Ukrainian software services
It had no industrial policy, no state investment and almost no domestic clients. It grew through a currency collapse, a war and a pandemic, and it…
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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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