National Days & Anniversaries
Knowledge Day 2017
The first of September, and the students who could now travel to Europe without a consular appointment.
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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Independence Day 2017: the year the border opened
Visa-free travel to the Schengen area began in June. Twenty-six years after independence, the most tangible change in ordinary life came not from an economic reform…
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Ivana Kupala 2017
Midsummer, and a note on why the oldest layer of the calendar has proved the most durable.
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Constitution Day 2017
A short greeting, kept short on purpose, in the month Ukrainians gained the right to travel to Europe without a visa.
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Vyshyvanka Day, 18 May 2017
A greeting for the day, and a note on the shirts that come out of wardrobes rather than shops.
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Easter, 16 April 2017
An Easter greeting, and a note on the greeting itself, which is not a phrase but an exchange.
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International Women's Day 2017
A greeting, and a note on the women who actually make a foreign company function in a market it does not fully understand.
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Day of Unity, 22 January 2017
A unity day greeting, and a note on the schoolchildren who now make up most of the chain.
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Christmas, 7 January 2017
A Christmas greeting on the January date, and a word about the carollers.
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New Year, 1 January 2017
A new year greeting, and a note on the two weeks that follow tonight.
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St Nicholas Day 2016
The nineteenth of December, and the volunteers who make sure the custom reaches children who would otherwise miss it.
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Holodomor Remembrance Day 2016
A candle in the window on the fourth Saturday of November.
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