One possible reason is to make it harder for young people to find earlier info about Kiev, as they won't be spelling it correctly for the old searches.
It's been Kiev my entire life so far.
I'm still peeved about them changing Peking to Beijing and brontosaurus to allosaurus. Oddly, the spell check flags allosaurus, but not brontosaurus or Peking. :)
One possible reason is to make it harder for young people to find earlier info about Kiev, as they won't be spelling it correctly for the old searches.
It's been Kiev my entire life so far.
I'm still peeved about them changing Peking to Beijing and brontosaurus to allosaurus. Oddly, the spell check flags allosaurus, but not brontosaurus or Peking. :)
Great observation. As I said, it makes no sense since both Russian and Ukrainian use the Cyrillic alphabet.
And the real ethnic Russ live in Ukraine I believe.