A record grain harvest, a contracting industrial base, and a decision approaching in November on which trade regime the country would adopt. Business planning stopped until…
A word for the teachers, on the day the flowers arrive.
Ten days before this anniversary, russian customs placed every Ukrainian exporter under enhanced inspection. It lasted a week, cost hundreds of millions, and was a demonstration…
A headline output figure close to zero can describe several very different situations. Breaking it into its components showed an economy in worse condition than the…
Kyiv's main avenue was destroyed in 1941, rebuilt in the 1950s in a single architectural gesture, and has since become the place where the country's political…
A very large harvest in prospect and an industrial sector still contracting. The gap between Ukraine's two economies widened further, and the currency position deteriorated in…
The wreath on the water, and what it was actually for before it became a photograph.
A greeting for Constitution Day, from someone who reads it as a guest.
The Kyiv Polytechnic and the Institute of Cybernetics are the reason a software industry appeared here in the 2000s with no policy support. Institutions outlive the…
A greeting for the day, and a note on the shirt as a piece of engineering rather than decoration.
The most widely observed religious occasion in the country, including among people who attend church at no other point in the year. What is in the…
A spring Easter, a full table, and a year that felt ordinary at the time.
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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