National Days & Anniversaries
Day of Unity, 22 January 2023
A greeting for a unity day when the chain could not be formed in the usual way.
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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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Christmas, 7 January 2023
A Christmas greeting for a January when households were marking it on two different dates for the first time.
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New Year, 1 January 2023
A new year greeting written in a winter of blackouts, from a city that celebrated anyway and quietly.
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St Nicholas Day, 19 December 2022
A greeting for a St Nicholas morning that arrived in the dark, in the first winter of blackouts.
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Holodomor Remembrance Day, 26 November 2022
A remembrance message in a year of blackouts, when the candle in the window was not only symbolic.
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Day of Ukrainian Writing and Language 2022
Eighteen years after arriving unable to say anything, a note on what learning a language actually gives you, written on the day set aside for it.
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Knowledge Day 2022
The first of September in the first war year, when a school could only teach in person if it had a shelter for everyone inside it.
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Independence Day 2022: the anniversary that fell on the six-month mark
Thirty-one years of independence and six months of full-scale war fall on the same date. What the economy looks like when a third of it disappears…
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Day of Ukrainian Statehood 2022
A new date in the calendar, marking a very old thing: the long line of Ukrainian statehood running back to Kyivan rus.
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Ivana Kupala, 7 July 2022
A midsummer greeting in a year when open fires and river gatherings were not possible in most of the country.
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Constitution Day, 28 June 2022
A short note on the anniversary in a year when the document was being defended rather than debated.
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Vyshyvanka Day, 19 May 2022
A greeting for the day, marked in a spring when a great many shirts were a long way from the wardrobe they came out of.
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