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Originally Posted by ilnjscb
We're not idiots here people, this is beyond wikipedia. We are asking how native Ukrainians, regardless of their history, ethnicity, linguistic descent, patrimony, or tribe, consider the standard way to say KYIV.
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Just a few words about "history, ethnicity, linguistic descent, patrimony, or tribe". Kiev is the first capital city of Russia. As we say: Kiev is a mother of Russian cities. After that the capital has moved to Moscow, then to St. Petersburg, then to Moscow again, but Kiev was the first one. So native language there is Russian. People in Kiev speak Russian w/o accent while people from Eastern Ukraine (e.g. Donbass) speak with a specific accent.