Society & Regions
Culture as an industry
Publishing, film, music and design employ people, generate revenue and export. Treated as an industry rather than as a subsidised good, the sector looks different.
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Demography, labour, migration, regional economies and the human context behind the numbers.
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Language in daily life
What people actually speak here has changed, and the practical implications for a business are simpler than the discussion around the subject suggests.
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Charitable giving and where it goes
Domestic philanthropy here operates at a scale and speed that would be remarkable anywhere, and it runs largely on payment apps and personal reputation.
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Women in the Ukrainian workforce
Ukraine has high female labour force participation, high female educational attainment, and a persistent pay gap. All three facts have the same set of causes.
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Kharkiv: universities, engineering and resilience
Kharkiv is a university and engineering city that happens to be forty kilometres from a border. Both halves of that sentence explain what has happened to…
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Displacement, and the communities that absorbed it
Millions of people moved within Ukraine, and most of them were housed by ordinary communities rather than by camps. That outcome was not inevitable and is…
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Living on a Ukrainian pension
Ukraine has a very large pensioner population and a pension that does not cover a normal life. How households manage is worth describing precisely.
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Where Ukrainians get information
The Ukrainian media landscape shifted from television owned by a small number of people to messaging channels owned by nobody in particular. Both arrangements have problems.
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Volunteering and the associational habit
Ukraine has an unusually strong capacity for self-organisation without instruction. Where that came from, and what it is not, is worth setting out carefully.
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The small cities nobody writes about
Most Ukrainians do not live in Kyiv, Lviv or Odesa. They live in towns of thirty to a hundred thousand people, and those towns have a…
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Lviv and the western shift
A city that was a tourist destination and a mid-sized IT centre became, within weeks, the logistics and relocation hub of the country. A good deal…
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Digital skills and who is left out
When a state moves its services onto a phone, the people without the phone or the skill do not become invisible. They become harder to serve.
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