Day of Ukrainian Writing and Language 2010
Six years in, at the stage where a language stops being a subject and becomes a tool you no longer notice using.
Six years in, at the stage where a language stops being a subject and becomes a tool you no longer notice using.
Two Orthodox jurisdictions, a large Greek Catholic west, Protestant communities with unusual reach, and a Muslim population with a specific history. The map is complicated and…
Half a dozen financial-industrial groups, assembled from privatisations in the 1990s, holding metals, energy, chemicals, banking and media in the same structures. Understanding the pattern matters…
A drought in the wider region lifted world grain prices, Ukraine restricted exports in response, and the same policy reflex of 2007 produced the same commercial…
Car ownership tripled over two decades on a road network designed for a city where almost nobody had a car. The metro is why the city…
A first-of-September greeting, and the moment in the ceremony that gives the whole thing away.
Mountains, a coastline, three cities with genuine architectural interest and one of Europe's most complete folk traditions. The assets are real; the infrastructure and the marketing…
The nineteenth anniversary arrives with growth back, a new IMF programme signed, a gas discount traded for a naval base lease — and a court case…
A curved cobbled street of about seven hundred metres connects the ancient upper town to the old merchant quarter below. Every layer of Kyiv's history is…
A city of three million on high ground above a very wide river, with business in three separate clusters and a metro that is the only…
An agreement in April reduced the gas import price in exchange for extending the lease of a naval base to 2042. A new IMF programme followed…
A midsummer greeting, and the one instruction everybody gives you before the fire.
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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