
Anders Åslund wrote most of the useful English-language material on Ukraine's economy, oligarch structure and repeated failed reform attempts.
The history that explains the regional industrial geography and its ownership.
The Kuchma years in which Ukraine's oligarchic structure formed.
Ukraine's 2004 Orange Revolution, the oligarchs and why they kept their assets.
The oligarch model, gas trading rents and the post-Maidan reform agenda.
Gas transit, trade dependence and the economics under the Ukraine-Russia conflict.
The 1991-2008 transition; explains where the industrial assets came from.