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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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[-] Red_Sunshine_Over_Florida@hexbear.net 81 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago)

I still call it Kiev because all the TV people switching words on a dime freaked me out. It's real 1984 shit when the entire media class just decides for geopolitical reasons the geographic name for a place everyone was used to using isn't usable anymore.

[-] Mindfury@hexbear.net 47 points 1 month ago

they can do this one instantly, but scores of media outlets either took forever or haven't even got Turkiye down yet

I still think a funny bit is just pretending to not accept the Cyrillic alphabet and calling it "Knib"

[-] Xavienth@lemmygrad.ml 31 points 1 month 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