Industry contracting, reserves falling for a third consecutive year, and an exchange rate held by rationing rather than by the balance of payments. The position was…
A greeting on the day, and an observation about who is expected to organise the celebration of themselves.
Every Ukrainian government of the period inherited the same external accounts problem and treated it as an inherited misfortune. It was structural, it was predictable, and…
In 2000 most consumer goods in Ukraine were sold from open markets. Two decades later organised retail dominates the cities and the bazaar survives in a…
Growth near zero, reserves falling, a fixed exchange rate defended by rationing — and a small first delivery of gas from the European direction that changed…
A cold January, a chain of hands, and a country I had by then lived in for nine years.
A year of near-zero growth ended with the first physical reverse-flow gas deliveries from Europe — small in volume and large in what it proved possible.
A Christmas greeting on the January date, and a note about the sheaf in the corner.
A New Year message from the middle of a decade, before anyone knew which parts of it would matter.
A greeting for the morning of the small gift, and the one detail children remember for the rest of their lives.
A remembrance message, and why the day is kept at four in the afternoon.
A greeting for the day, from someone who does business in two languages here.
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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