National Days & Anniversaries
Ivana Kupala 2009
Midsummer in a difficult year, and the observation that this particular festival costs nothing.
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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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Constitution Day, 28 June 2009
A greeting for Constitution Day, and a note on what a founding text is for.
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Vyshyvanka Day, 21 May 2009
A greeting for the day the office looks entirely different.
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Easter 2009
An Easter in the middle of a financial crisis, when the table was smaller and the greeting was the same.
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International Women's Day, 8 March 2009
A greeting on a day that arrives in the middle of a hard year, and a note on who has been carrying it.
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Day of Unity 2009
A cold January in a bad economic winter, and a day about holding together.
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Christmas, 7 January 2009
A Christmas greeting in a hard winter, and what the table does when the year has been bad.
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New Year, 1 January 2009
A new year greeting at the start of a year that everyone already knew would be difficult.
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St Nicholas Day, 19 December 2008
The night when something small appears under a pillow.
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Holodomor Remembrance Day, 22 November 2008
A remembrance message in the seventy-fifth anniversary year, and a note on why the anniversary mattered.
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Ukrainian Language Day, 9 November 2008
A language day greeting from someone still at the stage of being corrected in shops.
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Knowledge Day 2008
The first September in twenty years that I was not going back to a classroom. I had graduated in the summer and was working, and I…
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