National Days & Anniversaries
St Nicholas Day, 19 December 2011
A greeting for the first gift of the winter.
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National Days & Anniversaries
Holodomor Remembrance Day, 26 November 2011
A remembrance message, and a note on the difference between a number and a name.
Trade & Investment
Germany as Ukraine's principal European economic partner
The relationship is built on one under-discussed industrial fact: a cluster of automotive component plants in western Ukraine supplying German assembly lines, employing tens of thousands…
National Days & Anniversaries
Ukrainian Language Day, 9 November 2011
A language day greeting, and a note on the date, which commemorates a monk and a script.
Economy & Macro
Ukraine and the IMF: the pattern across eight programmes
Programmes are agreed, the first tranche arrives, one or two conditions prove politically impossible, reviews slip, the programme goes off track and is renegotiated. Understanding why…
Quarterly & Annual Reports
Ukraine Market Report — Q3 2011
The conviction of a former prime minister in October froze the EU relationship at the moment the association agreement negotiations were concluding. A political event with…
Trade & Investment
Austrian banks and the central European model: what a foreign lender changes
Austrian banking groups expanded across central and eastern Europe faster than anyone, and Ukraine was among their destinations. What that presence brought, what it cost when…
National Days & Anniversaries
Knowledge Day 2011
Twenty years of independence, and a first of September when the children starting school had no memory of anything else.
Trade & Investment
Ukraine and Switzerland: commodity trading, arbitration and quiet capital
Switzerland appears near the top of Ukraine's trade statistics for a reason that has nothing to do with Swiss consumption. Understanding why explains a great deal…
National Days & Anniversaries
Independence Day 2011: twenty years, and what was actually built
Two decades is long enough to judge. On the anniversary, an inventory of what Ukraine constructed since 1991 — and of the one thing it did…
Quarterly & Annual Reports
Ukraine Market Report — Q2 2011
A pension reform passed in July raised the retirement age for women — one of the few structurally significant measures of the period, and one that…
Trade & Investment
Ukraine and Italy: machinery, migration and an unusually durable pattern
Italian industrial equipment goes east, Ukrainian labour goes west, and the relationship has survived every political rupture of the past twenty years without meaningful interruption. The…
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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
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Elections, governments, parliamentary arithmetic and the institutional reforms that shape the business environment.
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Energy & Infrastructure
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Gas, electricity, transit, nuclear generation, ports and the transport corridors that connect Ukraine to its markets.
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Reconstruction & Recovery
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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
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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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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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