National Days & Anniversaries
Constitution Day, 28 June 2010
A short note on the anniversary of the 1996 constitution, with the arguments left to those they belong to.
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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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Vyshyvanka Day, 20 May 2010
A greeting for the day, and a note on the one place a shirt is always worn regardless of the calendar.
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Easter, 4 April 2010
An Easter greeting, and a note on the egg-tapping that decides who has the strongest shell.
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International Women's Day 2010
By 2010 I was working, and the eighth of March had become a workplace occasion with its own unwritten rules that nobody explains to a foreigner.
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Day of Unity, 22 January 2010
A unity day greeting, and a note on what a commemoration of a failed union is actually for.
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Christmas 2010
The seventh of January, and the carol singers who still come to the door in some places.
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New Year 2010
A New Year at the end of a bad year, and the observation that a calendar is a useful fiction.
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St Nicholas Day 2009
A small December kindness in a year when household budgets had been badly squeezed.
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Holodomor Remembrance Day, 28 November 2009
A remembrance message on an evening that asks nothing of anyone except attention.
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Ukrainian Language Day, 9 November 2009
A day for writing as well as speech, and for the people who made the alphabet legible.
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Knowledge Day, 1 September 2009
A first-of-September greeting, and a note on the one thing that never gets cut.
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Independence Day 2009: counting the cost of a fixed exchange rate
Eighteen years on, output is down by roughly a seventh, the currency has lost about 40 per cent against the dollar, and a generation of borrowers…
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