German, Italian, Polish, Turkish and Nordic suppliers all sell to the same Ukrainian mid-sized manufacturer, and each wins on a different basis. Knowing which basis is…
An Easter greeting, and a note on the one part of the weekend nobody delegates.
Growth stalled as external metal demand weakened, while the exchange rate remained fixed and reserves continued to fall. The quarter is where the 2010–2011 recovery visibly…
A short border, a large transit volume, a gas reverse-flow arrangement that mattered enormously, and a Hungarian-speaking community in Transcarpathia that has kept the political relationship…
Two economies on opposite shores of the same sea, with genuinely complementary structures — one exports raw materials and grain, the other manufactured goods and construction…
A greeting, and a note on the tulip supply chain that appears on every corner for exactly three days a year.
Foreign direct investment in Ukraine concentrated in five sectors and arrived through three or four holding jurisdictions. The pattern tells you more about the operating environment…
Two years of growth ended without restoring investment, repairing credit or building domestic demand. The year's most consequential event was a court case that delayed the…
A greeting for the day that marks the 1919 act joining the two Ukrainian republics, and what the human chain is actually doing.
The year closed with growth intact, external accounts deteriorating, reserves falling and the association agreement initialled but unsigned. Three of those four continued into the following…
The seventh of January: twelve dishes, no meat, and the first star. A Christmas greeting from a guest who has learned the order of the evening.
A new year greeting, and a note on the people who work through the night so everyone else can sit down.
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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