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Old 11-15-2019, 07:00 AM  
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Originally Posted by NatalieMojoHost View Post
It's only logical that when you adopt a spelling of a city name, you take it from the language that's the national language of that country. In Russian, which was an official language in the country for a while, the city is named Kiev, however, the Ukrainians call it it Kyiv, so I'm siding with the second.
Who exactly say this in the Ukraine? In Kiev or in Donbass? The Kiev people speak Russian without any accent just like Moscow people. The Eastern Ukrainians speak Russian very different.
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