National Days & Anniversaries
St Nicholas Day, 19 December 2015
A greeting for the quiet gift, and for the people who arrange them for children who are not their own.
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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Holodomor Remembrance Day, 28 November 2015
A candle in the window on the fourth Saturday of November.
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Ukrainian Language Day, 9 November 2015
A day for a language, and a note on how much of one lives in its jokes.
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Knowledge Day, 1 September 2015
A first-of-September greeting for a year when a number of children in the yard had arrived from somewhere else.
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Independence Day 2015: finding the bottom
The worst macroeconomic year since 1994 is also the year Ukraine cleaned out half its banking system, restructured its sovereign debt and raised gas tariffs to…
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Ivana Kupala 2015
The shortest night of the year, observed the way it has been observed for a very long time.
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Constitution Day 2015
A short greeting in a year of rebuilding institutions, kept short as always.
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Vyshyvanka Day 2015
By 2015 the day had grown from a student idea into something worn across the whole country, and the reasons people wore it had changed.
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International Women's Day 2015
A greeting in a year when a great many households were being held together by one person doing the work of two.
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Day of Unity, 22 January 2015
A unity day greeting in a difficult January, kept to the gesture itself.
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Christmas, 7 January 2015
A Christmas greeting for a year in which the empty place at the table was not only a tradition.
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