National Days & Anniversaries
Ukrainian Language Day, 9 November 2006
A day marked by a dictation that the whole country writes at once.
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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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Knowledge Day, 1 September 2006
A first-of-September greeting from my second autumn here, and the detail I had not expected.
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Independence Day 2006: fifteen years, and a gas bill that changed the arithmetic
The anniversary arrives three weeks after the man defeated in 2004 returned as prime minister, and eight months after the price of imported gas nearly doubled…
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Ivana Kupala, 7 July 2006
My first Kupala night watched properly, and the thing that surprised me about who was there.
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Constitution Day, 28 June 2006
A short note on the anniversary from my second year here, with the substance left to those it belongs to.
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Easter, 23 April 2006
An Easter greeting from my second spring here, and the thing about the basket I had misunderstood.
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International Women's Day 2006
The eighth of March in Kyiv is a day of flowers on a scale that has to be seen. A greeting to the women I have…
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Day of Unity 2006
A day about lands being joined, marked in January when the Dnipro is frozen and nobody much wants to be outside.
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Christmas 2006
My second Ukrainian Christmas, and the first at which I understood roughly what was happening around the table.
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New Year, 1 January 2006
A new year greeting, and a note on the two new years this country keeps.
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St Nicholas Day, 19 December 2005
A greeting for my first proper St Nicholas Day here, and the thing I got wrong about it.
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Holodomor Remembrance Day, 26 November 2005
My first remembrance day here, and what I did not know before that evening.
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