Independence Day and the other dates in Ukraine's calendar, each read against the state of the country in that year.
Ukraine marks seventeen years with WTO membership secured, steel prices at record highs, a war in the neighbourhood two weeks old — and a credit structure…
A midsummer greeting, and the observation that the holiday never quite agreed to become Christian.
A greeting for Constitution Day, without entering the argument.
A greeting for a day that was still small then, and what it looked like before it filled the streets.
An Easter greeting, and a word about the queue outside the church at six in the morning.
My first eighth of March as an employee rather than a student, and the discovery that the day has workplace choreography.
A unity day greeting, and a note on the bridge the chain is usually formed across.
The seventh of January in a hard winter, and the twelve dishes that are a fast rather than a feast.
The last New Year before the crisis, spent entirely unaware that it was the last of anything.
A greeting for the morning of the small gift, and a note on the birch twig that used to come with it.
A remembrance message, and the reason I stopped asking people about it directly.
A language day greeting from the stage where I could follow a meeting but not a joke.
The primary sources this archive rests on. All of them official bodies or institutional data providers.
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