The world’s largest online encyclopedia, Wikipedia, has changed its spelling of Ukraine’s capital from Kiev to Kyiv, Ukrainian Minister of Foreign Affairs Dmytro Kuleba announced on Sept. 18.
This change is important because Wikipedia is the fifth-most visited website in the world and many international media, civic organizations and companies refer to it when they write about Kyiv.
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Now, as we have proven, that "it is all possible", even to change a spelling of name for phonetic one in non phonetic English 🙂 I think Ukrainians could relax and allow both spellings floating in the media in peace.