National Days & Anniversaries
Constitution Day 2020
A short greeting from a strange summer, when public occasions had mostly moved indoors or online.
National Days & Anniversaries
Independence Day and the other dates in Ukraine's calendar, each read against the state of the country in that year.
National Days & Anniversaries
Vyshyvanka Day, 21 May 2020
A greeting for a day that moved online, and what happened when there was no street to walk down.
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Easter 2020
The Easter of empty churches. Baskets were blessed at a distance, families met on screens, and the paska was baked anyway.
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8 March 2020
A greeting to the women of Ukraine, at the start of an unusual spring.
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Day of Unity 2020
A January day about togetherness, weeks before a year that would require everyone to stay apart.
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Christmas, 7 January 2020
A Christmas greeting at the start of a decade, and a note on the dish that decides the evening.
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New Year, 1 January 2020
A new year greeting at the start of a new decade, written before anyone knew what the year would contain.
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St Nicholas Day 2019
The nineteenth of December, gifts under the pillow, and the twig that is threatened and never delivered.
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Holodomor Remembrance Day 2019
Fifteen years of lighting a candle on the fourth Saturday of November, and a short note on why a foreigner keeps doing it.
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Day of Ukrainian Writing and Language 2019
Fifteen years of speaking it, and a practical note for anyone arriving now and wondering whether it is worth the effort.
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Knowledge Day 2019
The first of September, and a note on the twelve-year school that Ukraine decided to build.
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Independence Day 2019: a government with no excuses left
Twenty-eight years, and for the first time since 1991 one political force holds the presidency and a single-party majority in parliament. Everything that does not get…
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