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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)

submitted 8 months ago* (last edited 8 months ago) by FuckyWucky@hexbear.net to c/chapotraphouse@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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[-] Xavienth@lemmygrad.ml 31 points 8 months ago

"Turkiye" would be fine, but that is not the official English name, it's "Türkiye" which makes absolutely no sense. Maybe we should start referring to Japan as 日本 in English instead too /s

[-] FuckyWucky@hexbear.net 25 points 8 months ago

Nippon libbing-out

[-] ClimateChangeAnxiety@hexbear.net 14 points 8 months ago

No seriously it seems insane to officially change the English name and make a big stink about it but use a letter that isn’t in the English alphabet? Just skip the umlaut wtf are you doing