National Days & Anniversaries
International Women's Day, 8 March 2009
A greeting on a day that arrives in the middle of a hard year, and a note on who has been carrying it.
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Quarterly & Annual Reports
Ukraine Annual Review 2008: two economies in one year
The first half was an overheating boom with inflation above thirty percent. The second was one of the sharpest contractions in Europe. Nothing structural changed in…
National Days & Anniversaries
Day of Unity 2009
A cold January in a bad economic winter, and a day about holding together.
Quarterly & Annual Reports
Ukraine Market Report — Q4 2008
The currency lost around forty percent of its value, industrial output fell by a quarter, and an emergency financing programme was agreed. The quarter is the…
National Days & Anniversaries
Christmas, 7 January 2009
A Christmas greeting in a hard winter, and what the table does when the year has been bad.
National Days & Anniversaries
New Year, 1 January 2009
A new year greeting at the start of a year that everyone already knew would be difficult.
National Days & Anniversaries
St Nicholas Day, 19 December 2008
The night when something small appears under a pillow.
National Days & Anniversaries
Holodomor Remembrance Day, 22 November 2008
A remembrance message in the seventy-fifth anniversary year, and a note on why the anniversary mattered.
Economy & Macro
Autumn 2008: how the peg broke, and who paid for it
Steel prices collapsed, foreign funding stopped, and a currency held at 5.05 for four years went to eight in a matter of weeks. The mechanics were…
National Days & Anniversaries
Ukrainian Language Day, 9 November 2008
A language day greeting from someone still at the stage of being corrected in shops.
Quarterly & Annual Reports
Ukraine Market Report — Q3 2008
Steel prices fell by more than half, international credit markets closed, and the three exposures assembled over the previous three years began moving at the same…
National Days & Anniversaries
Knowledge Day 2008
The first September in twenty years that I was not going back to a classroom. I had graduated in the summer and was working, and I…
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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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