This week, NPR decided to officially adapt on-the-air pronunciation of Kyiv, the capital formerly spelled Kiev, to sound closer to the way it's said in Ukrainian. NPR already changed the spelling ...

Poultry brands in New Zealand are changing their spelling from chicken kiev to chicken kyiv. Ukrainians say the update of two ...

My editor and I have had this discussion several times lately. Which one? Kiev or Kyiv? We don’t write Roma for Rome, but we do now write Mumbai rather than Bombay. And really, there’s not a ...

Russia carried out a major strike using long-range weapons and UAVs against Ukrainian military targets, in response to Kiev's ...

CBC has been using a transliteration based on the Ukrainian spelling of the name: "Kyiv" (pronounced "KEE-ef"). The Russian version is "Kiev" (pronounced "kee-EV"). Kiev was the ...

You see, from almost the very moment we began writing about Ukraine and the EuroMaidan protests, Ukrainians have been politely emailing us, asking us to not write Kiev, but to write Kyiv instead.

An air alert has been announced in Kiev, the Kiev region and 11 other regions of Ukraine, according to the data of the online ...

So Kyi's city became "Kyiv" in Ukrainian, whereas it became "Kiev" in Russian. "Some city names sound differently in Russian and in Ukrainian – say, Kharkiv is Kharkov in Russian; Lviv is Lvov ...

As Ukraine tries to tear itself away from Russian influence, it has never been more important to refer to the capital as Kyiv, not Kiev. Here’s why spelling matters. “Kyiv” is the official ...