Foreign relations
The year Europe stopped buying
The most consequential economic measure of this whole period was not a sanctions package. It was European energy demand moving away from a single supplier permanently.
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National Days & Anniversaries
Independence Day 2025: the arithmetic of recovery
Thirty-four years. Reconstruction is no longer a conference topic but a procurement pipeline, and the constraint on it turns out to be neither money nor politics…
Reconstruction & Recovery
Moving materials to where they are needed
A reconstruction programme is, in tonnage terms, mostly a haulage exercise. Whether the tonnage can physically move is a question asked too late.
Reconstruction & Recovery
The machines that do the rebuilding
Reconstruction requires excavators, crushers, concrete plants and crane capacity. Ukraine does not have enough of them, and that is a more immediate constraint than money.
Reconstruction & Recovery
Supplying materials at reconstruction scale
Cement, steel, bitumen and aggregate are the four inputs that determine whether a construction programme is possible, and each has a different constraint.
Reconstruction & Recovery
Building to European standards from the start
A building designed to Eurocodes is accession-ready, insurable, financeable and comprehensible to a foreign contractor. One designed to the old norms is none of those.
National Days & Anniversaries
Statehood Day, 15 July 2025
A greeting for a young holiday about a very old claim.
Reconstruction & Recovery
Can a city borrow to rebuild itself
A community with its own tax revenue could in principle borrow against it. What stands between that principle and a signed loan is mostly accounting.
Quarterly & Annual Reports
Ukraine Market Report — Q2 2025
Accession negotiations proceeded technically while the opening of chapters remained blocked politically, illustrating a distinction that matters commercially more than the headlines suggest.
War economy
Rome: from principles and pledges to a pipeline
Lugano wrote the principles. London addressed the risk. The Rome conference in July 2025 dealt with the thing that follows both: a pipeline of actual projects…
National Days & Anniversaries
Ivana Kupala, 7 July 2025
A midsummer greeting for a fourth wartime Kupala, and a note on the children who have never seen the full version.
Reconstruction & Recovery
Concessions and partnerships in recovery
Public-private partnership is proposed for almost everything in reconstruction and suits a narrow set of projects. Knowing which set saves a great deal of wasted preparation.
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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
57
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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National Days & Anniversaries
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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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