National Days & Anniversaries
Knowledge Day 2025
The first of September, and the year I finished an MBA in the same city where I once arrived unable to read the street signs.
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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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Independence Day 2025: the arithmetic of recovery
Thirty-four years. Reconstruction is no longer a conference topic but a procurement pipeline, and the constraint on it turns out to be neither money nor politics…
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Statehood Day, 15 July 2025
A greeting for a young holiday about a very old claim.
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Ivana Kupala, 7 July 2025
A midsummer greeting for a fourth wartime Kupala, and a note on the children who have never seen the full version.
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Constitution Day, 28 June 2025
A greeting for Constitution Day, marked in a year when the text is being tested.
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Vyshyvanka Day, 15 May 2025
A greeting for a day that is now worn in a great many countries at once, by people who did not plan to be there.
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Easter, 20 April 2025
An Easter greeting for a year when the calendars aligned and everyone marked it on the same day.
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Day of Unity, 22 January 2025
A unity day greeting in a fourth year of war, and what the word has come to mean in practice.
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New Year, 1 January 2025
A new year greeting at the start of a fourth wartime year, kept to what can honestly be wished.
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Christmas 2024
The second Christmas on the December date, by which point the argument in most families had settled one way or the other.
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St Nicholas Day, 6 December 2024
A greeting on the December date, and a note on the children whose pillow this year is in a shelter, a rented room or another country.
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