National Days & Anniversaries
Easter, 8 April 2007
An Easter greeting, and a note on the week before it, which is where most of the work happens.
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National Days & Anniversaries
International Women's Day, 8 March 2007
A greeting on the day, and a word about the women running the businesses I deal with.
Quarterly & Annual Reports
Ukraine Annual Review 2006: the year the cost base changed
A gas price shock that reset the economics of half of Ukrainian industry, a five-month political vacuum that barely touched commercial activity, and a credit expansion…
National Days & Anniversaries
Unity Day, 22 January 2007
A greeting for the anniversary of two halves agreeing to be one country.
Quarterly & Annual Reports
Ukraine Market Report — Q4 2006
A strong close to a strong year, with the current account crossing into deficit and nobody treating it as significant. The quarter is a study in…
National Days & Anniversaries
Christmas, 7 January 2007
A Christmas greeting, and a note on the one dish nobody skips.
National Days & Anniversaries
New Year 2007
A student New Year, the last one before graduation changed what the year meant.
National Days & Anniversaries
St Nicholas Day, 19 December 2006
A greeting for the morning of the small gift, and a note on the one letter children write.
National Days & Anniversaries
Holodomor Remembrance Day, 25 November 2006
A remembrance message, and a note on the difference between a monument and an evening.
National Days & Anniversaries
Ukrainian Language Day, 9 November 2006
A day marked by a dictation that the whole country writes at once.
Quarterly & Annual Reports
Ukraine Market Report — Q3 2006
A government finally formed, under a prime minister whose party had lost the previous presidential contest. The policy direction became genuinely uncertain while the economy continued…
National Days & Anniversaries
Knowledge Day, 1 September 2006
A first-of-September greeting from my second autumn here, and the detail I had not expected.
Browse the analyses
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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
61
Growth, inflation, the hryvnia, budgets and the macro-financial programmes that keep Ukraine's economy running.
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Trade & Investment
69
Foreign trade flows, free trade agreements, customs practice and the practical mechanics of entering the Ukrainian market.
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Politics & Governance
47
Elections, governments, parliamentary arithmetic and the institutional reforms that shape the business environment.
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Energy & Infrastructure
46
Gas, electricity, transit, nuclear generation, ports and the transport corridors that connect Ukraine to its markets.
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Reconstruction & Recovery
46
Damage assessment, recovery financing, construction capacity and the institutions being built to spend it well.
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EU & Euro-Atlantic Integration
49
The Association Agreement, DCFTA, candidate status, accession negotiations and the regulatory convergence behind them.
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Agriculture & Food
44
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
54
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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