National Days & Anniversaries
New Year 2008
The last New Year before the crisis, spent entirely unaware that it was the last of anything.
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National Days & Anniversaries
St Nicholas Day, 19 December 2007
A greeting for the morning of the small gift, and a note on the birch twig that used to come with it.
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Holodomor Remembrance Day, 24 November 2007
A remembrance message, and the reason I stopped asking people about it directly.
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Ukrainian Language Day, 9 November 2007
A language day greeting from the stage where I could follow a meeting but not a joke.
Quarterly & Annual Reports
Ukraine Market Report — Q3 2007
An early parliamentary election, an inflation rate moving into the high teens, and the first tightening in international credit markets that most Ukrainian borrowers did not…
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Knowledge Day, 1 September 2007
The first of September, and a courtyard full of flowers.
National Days & Anniversaries
Independence Day 2007: governing in the gaps between elections
Ukraine celebrates its sixteenth anniversary five weeks before a snap parliamentary election that exists because the constitution written in 2004 does not say clearly who is…
Quarterly & Annual Reports
Ukraine Market Report — Q2 2007
A constitutional standoff over the dissolution of parliament ran through the quarter. The economy grew at close to eight percent while it happened.
National Days & Anniversaries
Ivana Kupala, 7 July 2007
A midsummer greeting, and the part of the night that happens before the fire is lit.
National Days & Anniversaries
Constitution Day, 28 June 2007
A short note on the anniversary, with the arguments left where they belong.
National Days & Anniversaries
Vyshyvanka Day 2007
A day that began as a student idea in Chernivtsi: wear the embroidered shirt to class and see who else does.
Quarterly & Annual Reports
Ukraine Market Report — Q1 2007
Strong output, accelerating credit, and grain export restrictions that taught the agricultural sector a lesson about where regulatory risk actually sits.
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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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