| Labor Day/May Day - Friday May 1, 2020 Secular holiday : Chicago, Saturday May 1st, 1886: 350,000 workers go on strike to call for an 8-hour working day. Industries are paralyzed nationwide. On Monday, as demonstrations go on, the police open fire. On Tuesday, Chicago is again on strike. Following a bomb launched against them, the police shoot again. 12 dead, of which 7 policemen. 8 anarchists will be condemned and executed. In 1889, the Socialist International Movement met in Paris and declared this day international workers' day . The Soviets will follow suit, just as the Nazis. In France, under the Vichy regime (1940-1944), the celebration is renamed Labour Day .
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| Victory Day - Monday May 11, 2020 Secular holiday : Marks the capitulation of Nazi forces to the Allies in Berlin on May 8, 1945. It is celebrated in the successor states to the Soviet Union on May 9, because when the German Instrument of Surrender was signed, it was already May 9 in the USSR and Eastern Europe. Wikipedia
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| Europe Day - Saturday May 16, 2020 Secular holiday : The only state in the world that, not being a member of the European Union, celebrates unity with European countries annually
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| Day of Remembrance for the Victims of the Crimean Tatar Genocide - Monday May 18, 2020 Culture : The ethnic cleansing of at least 191,044 Crimean Tatars in 18–20 May 1944 carried out by the Stalinist regime
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| National Day of the Vlachs - Sunday May 23, 2021 Culture :
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| Regional holiday - Thursday May 27, 2021 Secular holiday : Kiev Day in Kiev region only
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| Summer holiday (beginning) - Friday May 29, 2020 School holidays :
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| Kiev (Molodist) - International Film Festival - Sunday May 31, 2020 Culture : Www.molodist.com in Kiev 2020 edition confirmed
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| Orthodox Pentecost - Sunday June 7, 2020 Secular holiday : Paid holiday
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| Whit Monday - Monday June 8, 2020 Orthodox : In Cyprus, Kataklysma is the festival of the floods in seaside towns
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| Day of Public Servants - Tuesday June 23, 2020 Culture :
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| St John's Day - Wednesday June 24, 2020 Culture : Ivan Kupala Day (St John Baptist)
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| Constitution Day - Monday June 29, 2020 Secular holiday : An independence referendum was held on 1 December, after which Ukrainian independence was finalized on 26 December. The current constitution was adopted on 28 June 1996.
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| National Police Day - Saturday July 4, 2020 Culture :
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| Odessa Film Festival - Friday July 10, 2020 Culture : Http://oiff.com.ua/en/index.htm in Odessa 2020 edition connfirmed
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| Day of Baptism - Tuesday July 28, 2020 Culture : Declared on July 25, 2008
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| Eid-ul-Adha - Feast of the Sacrifice (may be changed to the nearest day) - Friday July 31, 2020 Muslim, Sufi : from 2020
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| Independence Day - Monday August 24, 2020 Secular holiday : From the Soviet Union in 1991
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| Regional holiday - Monday August 24, 2020 Secular holiday : Kharkov Day in Kharkov region only
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| Regional holiday - Wednesday August 26, 2020 Secular holiday : Donetsk Day in Donetsk only
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