The anniversary arrives three weeks after the man defeated in 2004 returned as prime minister, and eight months after the price of imported gas nearly doubled…
Three months without a government and the strongest industrial recovery in two years, happening simultaneously. The quarter is the cleanest available demonstration that the two are…
My first Kupala night watched properly, and the thing that surprised me about who was there.
A short note on the anniversary from my second year here, with the substance left to those it belongs to.
An Easter greeting from my second spring here, and the thing about the basket I had misunderstood.
The year opened with a supply interruption and a near-doubling of the gas price. Every cost model in Ukrainian heavy industry had to be rewritten inside…
The eighth of March in Kyiv is a day of flowers on a scale that has to be seen. A greeting to the women I have…
Growth fell to a fraction of the previous year, a reform government dissolved inside eight months, and one transparent auction demonstrated what the country was capable…
A day about lands being joined, marked in January when the Dnipro is frozen and nobody much wants to be outside.
Supplies stopped on New Year's Day and resumed at nearly double the price. The dispute was settled in three days; the change it made to Ukrainian…
An open international auction sold the country's largest steel asset for several times the previous year's price, and a gas supply dispute at the very end…
My second Ukrainian Christmas, and the first at which I understood roughly what was happening around the table.
A continuous record of the Ukrainian market, quarter by quarter and year by year: output, currency, trade, sectors and what each period settled.
Growth, inflation, the hryvnia, budgets and the macro-financial programmes that keep Ukraine's economy running.
Foreign trade flows, free trade agreements, customs practice and the practical mechanics of entering the Ukrainian market.
Elections, governments, parliamentary arithmetic and the institutional reforms that shape the business environment.
Gas, electricity, transit, nuclear generation, ports and the transport corridors that connect Ukraine to its markets.
Damage assessment, recovery financing, construction capacity and the institutions being built to spend it well.
The Association Agreement, DCFTA, candidate status, accession negotiations and the regulatory convergence behind them.
Grain, oilseeds, the land market, export logistics and Ukraine's role in global food supply.
Demography, labour, migration, regional economies and the human context behind the numbers.
The ritual year, the symbols embroidered into cloth and painted onto eggs, the Carpathian practitioners and the philosophers — the older layer beneath modern Ukraine.
Independence Day and the other dates in Ukraine's calendar, each read against the state of the country in that year.
The primary sources this archive rests on. All of them official bodies or institutional data providers.
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