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by iz_zi 1582 days ago
As an American I’ve always seen it as “Kiev” in sources/media.
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In Anglosphere we always spelled it Kiev. I understand their desire to separate from Russia, but you can't force other countries to change their language. We don't use Deutschland or Kyiv.
> but you can't force other countries to change their language.

You are a bit late, because Ministry of Foreign Affairs of Ukraine already doing this.[0,1,2]

On Twitter 'MFA_Ukraine' and 'CorrectUA' already posted successful cases.[3]

[0] https://mfa.gov.ua/news/67521-correctua-mzs-ukrajini-zvertaj...

[1] https://poland.mfa.gov.ua/pl/news/67529-correctua-mzs-ukraji...

[2] https://kenya.mfa.gov.ua/news/6885-whats-in-a-name-the-switc...

[3] https://twitter.com/search?f=live&q=%23KyivNotKiev+from%3AMF...

Oh I know about the campaign, my point is that you cannot force people in other countries to change their language. We spell Kyiv Kiev.

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