Quarterly & Annual Reports
Ukraine Market Report — Q1 2005
A new administration, a reform mandate, and an immediate policy problem: what to do about the privatisations of the previous decade. The answer given in this…
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National Days & Anniversaries
International Women's Day, 8 March 2005
A greeting for the day the whole country buys flowers, and a note on what the day looks like from inside an office.
Quarterly & Annual Reports
Ukraine Annual Review 2004: the best year and the wrong lesson
The strongest growth of the independence period, a record external position, and a political crisis at the end of it. The year is most useful as…
National Days & Anniversaries
Day of Unity, 22 January 2005
A unity day greeting a few months after I arrived, when I was still learning what the day was.
Quarterly & Annual Reports
Ukraine Market Report — Q4 2004
A disputed election, mass protest, a repeat vote and a change of government inside eight weeks. The commercial system absorbed all of it without a payments…
National Days & Anniversaries
Christmas, 7 January 2005
A Christmas greeting at the end of a winter that had been anything but quiet.
National Days & Anniversaries
New Year 2005
My first New Year in Kyiv, spent in a student flat with people from four countries and not enough chairs.
National Days & Anniversaries
St Nicholas Day 2004
The nineteenth of December, when children find something under the pillow and the winter holidays properly begin.
Politics & Governance
The Orange Revolution: what seventeen days on a square changed for business
A disputed election, a court annulment and a repeat vote. Stripped of the political drama, the events of November and December 2004 established one precedent that…
National Days & Anniversaries
Holodomor Remembrance Day 2004
A candle in the window on the fourth Saturday of November. I learned what it meant in my first months here, and I have lit one…
National Days & Anniversaries
Day of Ukrainian Writing and Language 2004
Two months into living here, I could say almost nothing. This day is a good moment to admit how that felt, and to thank the people…
Quarterly & Annual Reports
Ukraine Market Report — Q3 2004
Economic momentum held through the quarter while political risk priced in sharply. Businesses stopped making decisions and started waiting, which is itself an economic event.
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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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National Days & Anniversaries
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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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