National Days & Anniversaries
Vyshyvanka Day 2021
The third Thursday of May, and the year the shirts appeared on video calls instead of in corridors.
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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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Easter, 2 May 2021
An Easter greeting for a second spring of restrictions, and what the basket did instead of the crowd.
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International Women's Day 2021
A greeting in a year when flowers were bought with a mask on and delivered at arm's length.
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Day of Unity, 22 January 2021
A unity day greeting in a year when a chain of people holding hands was not something anyone could organise.
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Christmas, 7 January 2021
A Christmas greeting for a year when the twelve dishes were cooked for fewer people than usual.
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New Year, 1 January 2021
A new year greeting after a year spent mostly indoors, and a note on the smallest new year I have seen here.
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St Nicholas Day, 19 December 2020
A greeting for a December when a great many things happened at a distance.
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Holodomor Remembrance Day, 28 November 2020
A remembrance message for a year in which people could not gather, and what a candle in a window does instead.
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Ukrainian Language Day, 9 November 2020
A language day greeting in a year when the dictation had to be written at kitchen tables.
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Knowledge Day, 1 September 2020
A first-of-September greeting for the strangest school opening I have seen here.
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Independence Day 2020: a quiet anniversary and a law that took nineteen years
No parade, restricted gatherings and a pandemic recession. Also: parliament finally lifted the farmland moratorium in March, which will matter longer than anything else that happened…
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Ivana Kupala 2020
Midsummer in a pandemic year, when the outdoor festival turned out to be the one that could still happen.
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