KyivNotKiev

Also known as Kiev-Kyiv conflict, Odessa-Odesa conflict, Zaporozhia-Zaporozhye-... conflict, Uzhhorod-Uzhgorod conflict, Kyiv not Kiev

right|thumb|250x250px|Campaign logo KyivNotKiev is an online campaign to persuade English-language media and organizations exclusively to use Kyiv (derived from the Ukrainian-language ) instead of Kiev (derived from the Russian-language ) as the name of the Ukrainian capital. It was started on 2 October 2018 by the Ukrainian Ministry of Foreign Affairs (MFA) and StratCom Ukraine, and it is run by the MFA's Department of Public Diplomacy.

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Instance of: conflict of interest
Part of: derussification
Country: Ukraine
Founded by: Ministry of Foreign Affairs of Ukraine

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inception: 2018-10-02
hashtag: CorrectUA
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Commons category: KyivNotKiev

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Encyclopedic overview

20 sections

Contents

CorrectUA campaign in English
KyivNotKiev campaign
Spelling of Kiev prior to KyivNotKiev
Origin of the campaign
Results of the campaign
In Chinese
In Traditional Chinese
In Simplified Chinese
In Dutch
''de Volkskrant'' decision
2023 NOS-led shift
In German
In Korean
In Latvian
In Japanese
In Portuguese
In other languages
See also
References
External links

It is part of the wider CorrectUA campaign, which intends internationally to assert a Ukrainian identity and remove linguistic relics of the Russian Empire and Soviet Union by promoting the exclusive use of Ukrainian-language transliterations for Ukrainian place names.

Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “KyivNotKiev” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.