National Days & Anniversaries
Knowledge Day 2004
My first first of September in Kyiv. I did not understand the flowers, and nobody explained them, and I have loved the day ever since.
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Independence Day 2004: a country counting down to an election
Thirteen years after the referendum, Ukraine marks its national day in the middle of the best growth year it has ever recorded — and three months…
Quarterly & Annual Reports
Ukraine Market Report — Q2 2004
Record export earnings, a contested privatisation of the country's largest steel asset, and the beginning of a political contest that would dominate everything after it.
National Days & Anniversaries
Ivana Kupala, 7 July 2004
A midsummer greeting written before I moved here, from what people had described to me.
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Constitution Day, 28 June 2004
A greeting for the day a country wrote down its own rules.
Quarterly & Annual Reports
Ukraine Market Report — Q1 2004
The year opened with the strongest industrial momentum since independence, driven almost entirely by external steel demand. Beneath the numbers, an election-year fiscal expansion was already…
National Days & Anniversaries
Easter, 11 April 2004
An Easter greeting written from a distance, in the year before I settled in Kyiv.
National Days & Anniversaries
Day of Unity, 22 January 2004
A unity day greeting written before I moved here, when the day was only a line in a calendar to me.
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Christmas, 7 January 2004
A Christmas greeting for the January date, from a year when I was still learning what the season looked like here.
National Days & Anniversaries
New Year 2004
A greeting for the year I would move to Kyiv, written for a country I had not yet seen.
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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