National Days & Anniversaries
Easter, 15 April 2012
An Easter greeting, and a note on the one part of the weekend nobody delegates.
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
International Women's Day 2012
A greeting, and a note on the tulip supply chain that appears on every corner for exactly three days a year.
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Day of Unity, 22 January 2012
A greeting for the day that marks the 1919 act joining the two Ukrainian republics, and what the human chain is actually doing.
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Christmas 2012
The seventh of January: twelve dishes, no meat, and the first star. A Christmas greeting from a guest who has learned the order of the evening.
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New Year, 1 January 2012
A new year greeting, and a note on the people who work through the night so everyone else can sit down.
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St Nicholas Day, 19 December 2011
A greeting for the first gift of the winter.
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Holodomor Remembrance Day, 26 November 2011
A remembrance message, and a note on the difference between a number and a name.
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Ukrainian Language Day, 9 November 2011
A language day greeting, and a note on the date, which commemorates a monk and a script.
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Knowledge Day 2011
Twenty years of independence, and a first of September when the children starting school had no memory of anything else.
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Independence Day 2011: twenty years, and what was actually built
Two decades is long enough to judge. On the anniversary, an inventory of what Ukraine constructed since 1991 — and of the one thing it did…
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Ivana Kupala 2011
By my seventh Kupala I had stopped finding it exotic and started finding it sensible, which is what happens when you live somewhere long enough.
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Constitution Day, 28 June 2011
A short note on the anniversary, with the argument left where it belongs.
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