Kyiv not Kiev. KEE-eve not KEE-yev." For those asking, @npr goes with Ukrainian spelling & pronunciation (not Russian) wherever possible when reporting on Ukraine. Kyiv not Kiev.

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 ...

CBC has been using a transliteration based on the Ukrainian spelling of the name of the capital, Kyiv, instead of the Russian one, Kiev. Here's why.

Kyiv (pronounced KEE-ev). The capital of Ukraine, formerly known as Kiev (pronounced Key-EV). Kiev is "the Russianized version" of the city's name, said Fedyashin.

Take Kyiv: The founder of Ukraine's capital was named Kyi in Ukrainian, or Kiy in Russian. So Kyi's city became "Kyiv" in Ukrainian, whereas it became "Kiev" in Russian.

On the surface, the Kiev/Kyiv debate seems similar, though it is far less heated. The official language of the country is Ukrainian. The city, in the predominantly Ukrainian-speaking west of the ...

UKRAINE is locked in an ongoing battle against Russia's rule, and now the correct spelling of its capital has never been more important. Here's why you should say Kyiv not Kiev.

Moscow pounded Kyiv and other cities in Ukraine with the largest missile and drone attack since the three-year war in Eastern ...

Moscow will agree to a meeting between Russian President Vladimir Putin and the head of the Kiev regime, Vladimir Zelensky, only after Kiev's surrender. This was stated in an interview with The Kyiv ...

If the correct spelling is Kyiv, where did Kiev come from? In Russian Cyrillic, the capital of Ukraine is written as “Киев”. This version became internationally accepted through the Soviet ...

Kyiv or Kiev? If you thought the city was named “Kiev,” there’s a reason for that. “Kiev” is what the city was called when it was under Soviet rule, and the name changed when Ukraine ...