National Days & Anniversaries
Christmas 2023
The first Christmas on the December date. A calendar moved after four centuries, and households worked out for themselves what to do with the change.
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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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St Nicholas Day, 6 December 2023
A greeting on the first December date, and a note on the year the day moved.
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Holodomor Remembrance Day 2023
Ninety years, and a candle in the window. The shortest of these messages, deliberately.
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Ukrainian Language Day, 9 November 2023
A greeting for the day, marked in a year when a great many people made a deliberate choice about which language to use.
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Knowledge Day, 1 September 2023
A school year that begins in several different formats at once.
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Independence Day 2023: a corridor of its own
Thirty-two years. Five weeks after the grain initiative lapsed, Ukraine has opened a unilateral shipping route along its western coast — and the economy is growing…
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Day of Ukrainian Statehood, 15 July 2023
A greeting for a young holiday about an old subject, kept to what can safely be said by a guest.
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Ivana Kupala, 7 July 2023
A midsummer night marked more quietly than usual.
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Constitution Day 2023
A short greeting, kept short as always, in a year when the legal framework was being rewritten at speed for a different reason.
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Vyshyvanka Day 2023
The third Thursday of May, and a shirt that has become one of the most widely recognised garments in Europe.
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Easter, 16 April 2023
An Easter greeting for a second spring under difficult conditions.
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International Women's Day 2023
A greeting, brief, in a year when the day was marked quietly in most places.
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