St Nicholas Day 2009
A small December kindness in a year when household budgets had been badly squeezed.
A small December kindness in a year when household budgets had been badly squeezed.
A remembrance message on an evening that asks nothing of anyone except attention.
A day for writing as well as speech, and for the people who made the alphabet legible.
A stabilising economy, an excellent harvest and a fiscal position deteriorating into an election. The quarter is a study in how election-year politics undoes crisis-year adjustment.
A first-of-September greeting, and a note on the one thing that never gets cut.
Eighteen years on, output is down by roughly a seventh, the currency has lost about 40 per cent against the dollar, and a generation of borrowers…
The bottom of the cycle, and the first quarter in which the difference between businesses that had matched their currencies and those that had not became…
Midsummer in a difficult year, and the observation that this particular festival costs nothing.
A greeting for Constitution Day, and a note on what a founding text is for.
A greeting for the day the office looks entirely different.
An Easter in the middle of a financial crisis, when the table was smaller and the greeting was the same.
A two-week gas interruption that reached European customers, industrial output down by a third, and the deepest point of the contraction. The quarter also permanently changed…
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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