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As Above So Below
Has anyone noticed a sudden and universal change by English-language media to spell the Ukrainian capital as 'Kyiv'? The English spelling to date has traditionally been 'Kiev'.
Is it a display of support for the Ukrainian nationalist cause? Despite the left wing and liberal intelligentsia's wishes to align us with the Ukrainian cause, Ukrainian society is pretty hard right and ethnonationalist, which are things that left wingers and liberals supposedly despise. I remember that there was all sorts of trouble when they hosted the European Championship football tournament a few years ago.
I read a news report yesterday from the dailymail.co.uk that used Kiev instead of Kyiv...I haven't looked around to see if the Kyiv usage is predominant and haven't seen that usage myself...
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