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My heart goes out to the heroes and heroines of Ukraine 🫶🇺🇦🔱

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UKRAINE has been an independent sovereign nation since 1991 but the Soviet-era versions of many geographic names stubbornly persist in international practice. The transliterations of the names of cities, regions and rivers from the Cyrillic alphabet into Latin are often mistakenly based on the Russian form of the name, not the Ukrainian; the most misspelled names are:

Archaic Soviet-era spelling	Correct modern spelling
Chernigov	Chernihiv
Chernobyl	Chornobyl
Dnieper/Dnepr	Dnipro
Kharkov	Kharkiv
Kiev	Kyiv
Lugansk	Luhansk
Lvov/Lwow	Lviv
Nikolaev/Nikolayev	Mykolaiv
Odessa	Odesa
Rovno	Rivne
Ternopol	Ternopil
the Ukraine	Ukraine

Under the Russian empire and later the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics (USSR), Russification was actively used as a tool to extinguish each constituent country’s national identity, culture and language. In light of Russia’s war of aggression against Ukraine, including its illegal occupation of Crimea, we are once again experiencing Russification as a tactic that attempts to destabilize and delegitimize Ukraine. You will appreciate, we hope, how the use of Soviet-era placenames – rooted in the Russian language – is especially painful and unacceptable to the people of Ukraine.

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