National Days & Anniversaries
Unity Day, 22 January 2014
A greeting for the day, kept to the anniversary itself.
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Quarterly & Annual Reports
Ukraine Market Report — Q4 2013
The signature was suspended in November, protests began the same week, and a bilateral financing package was agreed in December. The quarter ended with the country's…
National Days & Anniversaries
Christmas, 7 January 2014
A Christmas greeting on the January date, kept simple.
National Days & Anniversaries
New Year, 1 January 2014
A new year greeting written for a night that a great many people spent on a square rather than at home.
Economy & Macro
The last year of the old model: a review written at the end of one era
The economic model in place since the early 2000s reached the end of what it could deliver. Reviewing the year makes the exhaustion visible: every component…
National Days & Anniversaries
St Nicholas Day, 19 December 2013
A greeting for the day the winter holidays begin.
EU & Euro-Atlantic Integration
Vilnius 2013: the suspension, and the arithmetic behind it
Eight days before the summit, the government suspended preparations to sign the Association Agreement. The stated reason was economic. The economics were real — and were…
National Days & Anniversaries
Holodomor: the famine of 1932–33 and why grain carries weight here
On the fourth Saturday of November the country stops for a minute and puts candles in windows. Understanding what is being remembered explains a great deal…
National Days & Anniversaries
Holodomor Remembrance Day, 23 November 2013
A remembrance message, and a note on the eightieth anniversary and the people who were still alive to speak.
EU & Euro-Atlantic Integration
Why the trade choice was framed as a choice, and what the economics actually said
The question was presented as Europe or the customs union, as if the two were symmetric alternatives. They were not, and the asymmetry explains almost everything…
National Days & Anniversaries
Ukrainian Language Day, 9 November 2013
A language day greeting, and a note on the word that has no comfortable translation.
Economy & Macro
An economy that stopped growing, and the three reasons why
By 2013 Ukrainian output had stalled without any single dramatic event to explain it. The causes were structural, they had been visible for years, and they…
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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
47
Elections, governments, parliamentary arithmetic and the institutional reforms that shape the business environment.
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Energy & Infrastructure
46
Gas, electricity, transit, nuclear generation, ports and the transport corridors that connect Ukraine to its markets.
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Reconstruction & Recovery
46
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
57
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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National Days & Anniversaries
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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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