National Days & Anniversaries
Day of Ukrainian Writing and Language 2004
Two months into living here, I could say almost nothing. This day is a good moment to admit how that felt, and to thank the people…
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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 2004
My first first of September in Kyiv. I did not understand the flowers, and nobody explained them, and I have loved the day ever since.
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Independence Day 2004: a country counting down to an election
Thirteen years after the referendum, Ukraine marks its national day in the middle of the best growth year it has ever recorded — and three months…
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Ivana Kupala, 7 July 2004
A midsummer greeting written before I moved here, from what people had described to me.
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Constitution Day, 28 June 2004
A greeting for the day a country wrote down its own rules.
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Easter, 11 April 2004
An Easter greeting written from a distance, in the year before I settled in Kyiv.
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Day of Unity, 22 January 2004
A unity day greeting written before I moved here, when the day was only a line in a calendar to me.
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Christmas, 7 January 2004
A Christmas greeting for the January date, from a year when I was still learning what the season looked like here.
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New Year 2004
A greeting for the year I would move to Kyiv, written for a country I had not yet seen.
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