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Russian language is as much a part of Ukraine as Ukranian is. You won't see many in the media calling it Kyiv before Ukraine turned nationalist under Poroshenko (hexbear.net)
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https://www.reuters.com/article/world/ukraine-passes-language-law-irritating-president-elect-and-russia-idUSKCN1S110Y/

Literally the whole media switched spelling around this time.

iRaq and iRan are silly but the "Kyiv" stuff is different.

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[โ€“] Saeculum@hexbear.net 21 points 2 years ago (1 children)

Rare British win.

Also though, a lot of people seem unreasonably upset about English speakers pronouncing words differently to how they are in their native languages when that's just how accents work.

[โ€“] lorty@lemmy.ml 1 points 2 years ago

If english speakers weren't specially insufferable about pronunciation then maybe they wouldn't care.