Society & Regions
Daily life, as a long-term guest saw it change
A long-term foreign resident's account of what changed in daily life, which is a different record from the one made by statistics.
Society & Regions
Demography, labour, migration, regional economies and the human context behind the numbers.
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How many people will live in Ukraine
Every plan for Ukraine assumes a population number, and most of them assume it without saying so. The honest range is wide and the consequences are…
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The regions pulling ahead and falling behind
Regional economic divergence has widened sharply, and the pattern is not the one the pre-war map would have predicted.
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The return question, examined honestly
Millions of Ukrainians are living abroad. How many come back is the single most consequential variable in the country's future, and it is decided household by…
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What holds a society together under strain
Under sustained pressure, formal institutions matter less than most theories predict and informal networks matter considerably more.
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What young Ukrainians expect
A generation that has spent its formative years in disruption has a specific relationship to institutions, work and the future. It is not the one older…
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The publishing boom
Ukrainian-language publishing has grown from a marginal business to a functioning industry with festivals, prizes, translation programmes and readers who buy hardbacks.
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Mental health as public policy
Ukraine is building a mental health system rather than a set of services, and the distinction is what makes it likely to last.
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A society with many veterans
A large share of families will have someone who served. That changes workplaces, schools, medicine and ordinary social life, and most of the adjustment is practical.
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Vocational training and the skills a rebuild needs
The reconstruction will be carried out by welders, machine operators and electricians. There are not enough of them, and the training system is the thing that…
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The people who came back
Return migration is less discussed than departure and is at least as consequential, because people come back with things they did not leave with.
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Ukrainian music abroad
Music travels further and faster than any other cultural product, and Ukrainian artists have used that in a period when other channels were harder.
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