National Days & Anniversaries
Ivana Kupala, 7 July 2008
A midsummer greeting, and the observation that the holiday never quite agreed to become Christian.
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National Days & Anniversaries
Constitution Day, 28 June 2008
A greeting for Constitution Day, without entering the argument.
Trade & Investment
WTO accession: what fourteen years of negotiation actually bought Ukraine
Membership took effect on 16 May. It binds tariffs, opens services, subjects trade policy to a dispute mechanism — and removes the last legal obstacle to…
National Days & Anniversaries
Vyshyvanka Day, 15 May 2008
A greeting for a day that was still small then, and what it looked like before it filled the streets.
National Days & Anniversaries
Easter, 27 April 2008
An Easter greeting, and a word about the queue outside the church at six in the morning.
Quarterly & Annual Reports
Ukraine Market Report — Q1 2008
Inflation above thirty percent, an economy running well beyond capacity, and a policy response that was still expansionary. The quarter is the textbook description of an…
Politics & Governance
Bucharest 2008: a promise without a date, and what it cost to price
NATO declared that Ukraine and Georgia would become members but declined to offer a Membership Action Plan. The formula gave Kyiv the political exposure of a…
National Days & Anniversaries
International Women's Day 2008
My first eighth of March as an employee rather than a student, and the discovery that the day has workplace choreography.
Quarterly & Annual Reports
Ukraine Annual Review 2007: the last good year, and why it was the most dangerous
Growth near eight percent, record investment, a booming property market and a banking sector expanding faster than any in the region. Everything that made 2007 look…
National Days & Anniversaries
Day of Unity, 22 January 2008
A unity day greeting, and a note on the bridge the chain is usually formed across.
Quarterly & Annual Reports
Ukraine Market Report — Q4 2007
The strongest year since 2004 ended with inflation in the mid-teens, an external deficit at a record, and a credit structure entirely dependent on funding conditions…
National Days & Anniversaries
Christmas 2008
The seventh of January in a hard winter, and the twelve dishes that are a fast rather than a feast.
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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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