Independence Day and the other dates in Ukraine's calendar, each read against the state of the country in that year.
Twenty-seven years. Growth is holding above three per cent, an anti-corruption court has finally been legislated — and shipping through the Sea of Azov is being…
Midsummer, and the observation that this is the one festival where the young organise and the old attend.
A greeting for Constitution Day, and a word about the boring parts.
A greeting for the day, and a note on the shirts worn by people with no Ukrainian family at all.
A note on the paska itself: why it is baked tall, and why the recipe belongs to a specific grandmother rather than to a country.
A January day, and a foreigner's note on the difference between a country being united and a country agreeing.
The seventh of January, and a note on kutia — the first dish, and the one nobody skips.
A new year greeting, and a note on the one dish that appears on every table regardless of anything else.
A greeting for the morning of the small gift, and a note on the saint himself, who was neither Ukrainian nor a myth.
A day observed with silence and a handful of grain.
A greeting for the day, from someone whose children learned it faster than he did.
The primary sources this archive rests on. All of them official bodies or institutional data providers.
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