National Days & Anniversaries
Constitution Day, 28 June 2010
A short note on the anniversary of the 1996 constitution, with the arguments left to those they belong to.
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National Days & Anniversaries
Vyshyvanka Day, 20 May 2010
A greeting for the day, and a note on the one place a shirt is always worn regardless of the calendar.
Agriculture & Food
Ukraine's agricultural sector: what the structure actually looks like
Forty-two million hectares of farmland, a quarter of Europe's arable total, yields well below what the soil should deliver, and an ownership structure that explains the…
Energy & Infrastructure
The Kharkiv accords: why a gas discount for a base lease was a bad trade
Thirty-two years of basing rights were exchanged for roughly a hundred dollars per thousand cubic metres off the gas price. The problem is not the politics…
Quarterly & Annual Reports
Ukraine Market Report — Q1 2010
A presidential election concluded in February and a new government formed in March. The economy was recovering from a very low base, and the policy question…
National Days & Anniversaries
Easter, 4 April 2010
An Easter greeting, and a note on the egg-tapping that decides who has the strongest shell.
National Days & Anniversaries
International Women's Day 2010
By 2010 I was working, and the eighth of March had become a workplace occasion with its own unwritten rules that nobody explains to a foreigner.
Quarterly & Annual Reports
Ukraine Annual Review 2009: the deepest year, and what it rebuilt
Output down around fifteen percent, the sharpest contraction of the independence period, and the year that produced the sectoral composition Ukraine still has.
National Days & Anniversaries
Day of Unity, 22 January 2010
A unity day greeting, and a note on what a commemoration of a failed union is actually for.
Quarterly & Annual Reports
Ukraine Market Report — Q4 2009
The worst year in the country's independent economic history ended with output stabilised, the currency steady and a presidential election weeks away. What had been destroyed…
National Days & Anniversaries
Christmas 2010
The seventh of January, and the carol singers who still come to the door in some places.
National Days & Anniversaries
New Year 2010
A New Year at the end of a bad year, and the observation that a calendar is a useful fiction.
Browse the analyses
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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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