Kyiv   Dear Mr McLaughlin  With regards to your persistent efforts of keeping the old spelling of the capital of Ukraine For your information   It is spelled as Kyiv in English language because   Ukrainian government insists on Kyiv spelling   The State Department of the US issued a directive to write Kyiv   The Prime Minister of the UK calls the city Kyiv  httpwwwnumbergovukPage   United Nations Multilingual Terminology Database the ultimate body on geographical names approved it as Kyiv  httpuntermunorgdgaacsuntermnsfWebViewBBFABFBDCAADOpenDocument   Major English speaking governments worldwide switched to Kyiv spelling   CIA refers to the city as Kyiv  httpswwwciagovlibrarypublicationstheworldfactbookgeosuphtml   The name of the famous football club is Dynamo Kyiv recognised worldwide   Many papers eg British The Guardian are already writing Kyiv   All major Canadian media already use the spelling of Kyiv   and many more reasons and references on httpkyivofcourse  If we only listen to your arguments we would be also correcting Almaty to AlmaAta However it is Almaty and Kyiv it is of course Above you have had enough of proofs and strong arguments of usage of the name Kyiv in the modern English language so it is time to catch up and finally fix the name to Kyiv  Thank you