National Days & Anniversaries
New Year 2015
A New Year at the end of a year that changed a great deal, written without any attempt to summarise it.
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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St Nicholas Day 2014
A small kindness on a dark December morning, in a year that had been long. The children got their gifts under the pillow, as they always…
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Holodomor Remembrance Day, 22 November 2014
A remembrance message in a year when the commemoration was harder to keep separate from the present.
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Ukrainian Language Day, 9 November 2014
A language day greeting in a year when more people around me changed which language they use daily.
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Knowledge Day 2014
A first of September in a hard year, and the teachers who opened the doors anyway.
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Independence Day 2014: a smaller map and a rewritten balance sheet
Twenty-three years, and for the first time the anniversary is marked by a country that controls less territory than it did the year before. What that…
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Ivana Kupala, 7 July 2014
The shortest nights of the year, a fire, and wreaths on the water.
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Constitution Day, 28 June 2014
A short note on the anniversary in a year when constitutional questions were not abstract.
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Vyshyvanka Day, 15 May 2014
A greeting for a day that was noticeably larger this year than last.
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Easter, 20 April 2014
An Easter greeting for a difficult spring, kept to the morning itself.
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International Women's Day, 8 March 2014
A short message on a day arriving in a spring nobody was ready for.
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Unity Day, 22 January 2014
A greeting for the day, kept to the anniversary itself.
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