National Days & Anniversaries
Ukrainian Language Day, 9 November 2016
A greeting for the day, and a note on the words a language keeps that others have no room for.
National Days & Anniversaries
Independence Day and the other dates in Ukraine's calendar, each read against the state of the country in that year.
National Days & Anniversaries
Knowledge Day 2016
The first of September, and a note on the external testing that changed who gets into university.
National Days & Anniversaries
Independence Day 2016: a quarter of a century, and a new trade map
Twenty-five years. The free trade area with the EU took effect in January, russia closed its own preferential regime in response, and Ukrainian trade flows rearranged…
National Days & Anniversaries
Ivana Kupala, 7 July 2016
A summer night that belongs to the young, and to water.
National Days & Anniversaries
Constitution Day, 28 June 2016
A short note on the anniversary, with the substance left to those it belongs to.
National Days & Anniversaries
Vyshyvanka Day, 19 May 2016
A greeting for the day, and a note on what a pattern is actually recording.
National Days & Anniversaries
Easter 2016
The basket, the cloth over it, and the queue outside the church at seven in the morning.
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Day of Unity 2016
A January day about holding together, in a decade that tested the idea.
National Days & Anniversaries
Christmas, 7 January 2016
A Christmas greeting, and a note on the dish that is served first and eaten last.
National Days & Anniversaries
New Year 2016
A New Year greeting from the middle of a difficult decade, written by someone who had by then been here long enough to have opinions about…
National Days & Anniversaries
Ukraine's public holidays and the working calendar
Every statutory holiday, what each one commemorates, the 2023 calendar reform that moved several of them, and the practical effect on production, logistics and staffing.
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