National Days & Anniversaries
New Year, 1 January 2006
A new year greeting, and a note on the two new years this country keeps.
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National Days & Anniversaries
St Nicholas Day, 19 December 2005
A greeting for my first proper St Nicholas Day here, and the thing I got wrong about it.
National Days & Anniversaries
Holodomor Remembrance Day, 26 November 2005
My first remembrance day here, and what I did not know before that evening.
National Days & Anniversaries
Ukrainian Language Day, 9 November 2005
A day for a language, marked by a foreigner still learning it.
Quarterly & Annual Reports
Ukraine Market Report — Q3 2005
A government dismissed, a coalition dissolved, and — in the middle of it — the clearest signal of the decade that a competitive privatisation was possible.
Politics & Governance
Eight months: why the 2005 coalition collapsed, and what it cost
The government that came out of the Orange Revolution was dismissed in its entirety in September 2005. The proximate cause was a corruption dispute; the underlying…
National Days & Anniversaries
Knowledge Day 2005
My second first of September, and the year I stopped being the person who did not understand what was happening.
National Days & Anniversaries
Independence Day 2005: the year after, and the bill for it
The first national day since the Orange Revolution arrives with the coalition that made it visibly cracking, growth down from eleven per cent to under three…
Quarterly & Annual Reports
Ukraine Market Report — Q2 2005
Administrative price interventions in food markets, a sharp slowdown in industry, and the first clear evidence that the 2004 growth rate had been a price effect…
National Days & Anniversaries
Ivana Kupala 2005
Fire, water, wreaths on the river and the shortest night of the year — the oldest layer of the Ukrainian calendar, and the least explicable to…
National Days & Anniversaries
Constitution Day 2005
A greeting for the day a country marks having written its own rules for itself — and nothing further, because the arguments about them are not…
National Days & Anniversaries
Easter 2005
A classmate took me home to his family for Easter. I understood almost none of it and it remains one of the warmest days I have…
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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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