Twenty-three years, and for the first time the anniversary is marked by a country that controls less territory than it did the year before. What that…
The association agreement's economic chapters were signed in June, an IMF programme began in April, gas supply from the east stopped in June, and armed conflict…
The shortest nights of the year, a fire, and wreaths on the water.
Two thousand one hundred pages signed on 27 June. Most commentary treats it as a geopolitical statement. For a business, it is something more useful: a…
A short note on the anniversary in a year when constitutional questions were not abstract.
A greeting for a day that was noticeably larger this year than last.
An Easter greeting for a difficult spring, kept to the morning itself.
A change of government in February, the end of the fixed exchange rate, the annexation of Crimea in March. The quarter contains more structural change than…
Beyond the territorial question, the annexation removed port capacity, a shipbuilding cluster, offshore hydrocarbon licences and a maritime zone. This is an inventory of what moved…
A short message on a day arriving in a spring nobody was ready for.
The sequence matters more than any individual decision. People first, then cash, then contracts, then the strategic question — and the strategic question should never be…
Three consecutive years of falling reserves, a fixed exchange rate the external accounts did not support, an industrial base in structural decline, and a trade decision…
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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