National Days & Anniversaries
Vyshyvanka Day, 19 May 2011
A greeting for the day when the office, the tram and the whole street change colour, and a note on where the day came from.
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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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Easter 2011
The greeting exchanged three times, and the correct response, which took me several years to say without thinking.
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International Women's Day 2011
A greeting, and an observation about who is actually in the room when a difficult decision gets made.
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Day of Unity 2011
Twenty years of independence approaching, and a January day about the geography of a single country.
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Christmas, 7 January 2011
A Christmas greeting on the January date, from a guest at the table.
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New Year, 1 January 2011
A New Year greeting, at the hour when the whole country is at the same table.
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St Nicholas Day, 19 December 2010
A greeting for the morning of the small gift, and a note on the parents doing the work.
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Holodomor Remembrance Day 2010
A candle in the window on the fourth Saturday of November.
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Day of Ukrainian Writing and Language 2010
Six years in, at the stage where a language stops being a subject and becomes a tool you no longer notice using.
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Knowledge Day, 1 September 2010
A first-of-September greeting, and the moment in the ceremony that gives the whole thing away.
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Independence Day 2010: a recovery, and a quiet change of constitution
The nineteenth anniversary arrives with growth back, a new IMF programme signed, a gas discount traded for a naval base lease — and a court case…
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Ivana Kupala, 7 July 2010
A midsummer greeting, and the one instruction everybody gives you before the fire.
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