Sudden-never-before-used was made official in 1995. I actually Iived in Ukraine at that time. I have lived in Russia for 3 years and in Ukraine for 3 years. I have a development team in St Pete and in Lviv. It's the prerogative of authorities which have jurisdiction over a geographic region to name entities however they choose. There is nothing woke about spelling a city the way that the authorities of that city spell it.
We no longer spell St Petersburg "Leningrad" for a reason - it was renamed. Kiev is no longer spelled Kiev, it's called Kyiv. As you can imagine, Ukraine sought to distance themselves from the dissolution of the Soviet Union, as did all satellite countries. They did this by re-emphasizing Ukrainian nationalism.
If you check documents dating back to the 50's, you will find that any official document published by the Ukrainian authorities in English always used the Ukrainian spelling of the names. If you get a map of Ukraine from the 60's with Ukrainian spelling of the cities and English transliteration, you will find that it is spelled this way.
I'm cool with you being disappointed in me, however as I am striving to please a much more Significant Audience.
Sudden-never-before-used was made official in 2014. I actually Iived in Ukraine at that time. I have lived in Russia for 3 years and in Ukraine for 3 years. I have a development team in St Pete and in Lviv. It's the prerogative of authorities which have jurisdiction over a geographic region to name entities however they choose. There is nothing woke about spelling a city the way that the authorities of that city spell it.
We no longer spell St Petersburg "Leningrad" for a reason - it was renamed. Kiev is no longer spelled Kiev, it's called Kyiv.
If you check documents dating back to the 50's, you will find that any official document published by the Ukrainian authorities in English always used the Ukrainian spelling of the names. If you get a map of Ukraine from the 60's with Ukrainian spelling of the cities and English transliteration, you will find that it is spelled this way.
I'm cool with you being disappointed in me, however as I am striving to please a much more Significant Audience.