'So you'd be fine with people using names like Koenigsberg, or Theodorichhafen, or Ostland?' You seem to be confused. Kyiv and Kiev are different spellings of

'So you'd be fine with people using names like Koenigsberg, or Theodorichhafen, or Ostland?' You seem to be confused. Kyiv and Kiev are different spellings of the same name. Kiev is traditional for English and Russian, Kyiv -- for Ukrainian language. Ironically, "a 2015 study by the International Republican Institute found that the languages spoken at home in Kyiv were Ukrainian (27%), Russian (32%), and an equal combination of Ukrainian and Russian (40%)" [0]. And going back in time: "According to the census of 1897, of Kyiv's approximately 240,000 people approximately 56% of the population spoke the Russian language, 23% spoke the Ukrainian language." [0] [0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kyiv#Language_statistics https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kyiv#Language_statistics