National Days & Anniversaries
Constitution Day, 28 June 2025
A greeting for Constitution Day, marked in a year when the text is being tested.
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Reconstruction & Recovery
Getting private capital into reconstruction
Public money and development bank lending will not cover the bill. Private capital will come only where the risk is shared and the revenue is identifiable.
War economy
From plans to a pipeline
Reconstruction financing has been available for some time. What was missing was a supply of projects prepared well enough to receive it.
Culture and identity
Museums that reopened
A museum that reopens is making a statement about the future tense. By 2025 many Ukrainian institutions had brought collections back out of storage and opened…
EU & Euro-Atlantic Integration
Cohesion policy and how regional money works
European regional funding is not a transfer to a government. It is a project machine with rules, and running it requires an administration built for the…
Domestic balance
Land released, and what happens the day after
Clearance is measured in hectares released. What matters is whether the hectare is farmed the following season, and that is a separate problem.
Humanitarian dimension
The infection problem in war wounds
Antimicrobial resistance in complex war injuries is one of the most serious medical problems of this period, and one of the least discussed.
Reconstruction & Recovery
Consortium models for reconstruction contracting: who does what and who carries what
Almost no reconstruction work will be delivered by a single company operating alone. The consortium structures that will do the work have predictable shapes, and the…
Humanitarian dimension
The fourth year, and the funding problem nobody solves
Humanitarian need in Ukraine did not fall in 2025. Humanitarian funding did, and the gap between those two facts is the central problem of this period.
EU & Euro-Atlantic Integration
Agriculture: the hardest chapter
Ukraine is a very large agricultural producer joining a union whose agricultural policy is its most politically defended. That is the central difficulty of the whole…
Domestic balance
Storage, and the value of an hour
By 2025 the most valuable addition to the Ukrainian grid was not new generation. It was batteries, and the reason is a matter of timing rather…
War economy
Paying for a war and preparing for accession at the same time
By 2025 external financing to Ukraine was doing two jobs at once, and the second one is the more consequential.
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Quarterly & Annual Reports
110
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
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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
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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