National Days & Anniversaries
Statehood Day, 15 July 2026
A greeting for the day, on the ordinary business of being a state.
National Days & Anniversaries
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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Ivana Kupala, 7 July 2026
A midsummer night, and a custom that keeps its own date.
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Constitution Day, 28 June 2026
A greeting for Constitution Day, thirty years on from the text.
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Vyshyvanka Day, 21 May 2026
A greeting for the day, and a note on where the patterns come from.
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Easter 2026
The paska, the basket, the greeting exchanged in the same words as always. Twenty-two Easters here, and the form has not changed at all.
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Unity Day, 22 January 2026
A greeting for the anniversary, without further commentary.
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Christmas, 25 December 2025
A Christmas greeting on the December date, in the year the change stopped being news.
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St Nicholas Day, 6 December 2025
A greeting for a morning that has now belonged to December for three years, and for the children who have known nothing else.
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Holodomor Remembrance Day, 22 November 2025
A remembrance message on an evening that has been kept every year I have been here.
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Day of Ukrainian Writing and Language 2025
Twenty-one years of speaking it, and the last of these notes I expect to write about learning rather than about using.
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