correction in ukraine section of russified names hi jim i am new to this so if u can help then that would be great the changes i am trying to make are in the ukraine section i noticed that all the names used are still the russian or russified names that reflect the russification process of ww etc i know what names are correct because i am a ukrainian native speaker but for documentation purposes you can verify that the correct ukrainian names were officially recognized by the us state dept in i do not know the exact document number there is an excellent article that refers to exactly this issue in the following newspaper article please scroll down to page to read it thus other names that should be corrected for example are lvov should be lviv ternopol should be ternopil chernobyl should be chornobyl etc etc these changes should also be made in the main block of info on ukraine at top right so that the capital is correctly listed as kyiv and not as kiev this would mean also correcting the sections pages on kyiv alone as well as the pages for the chornobyl nuclear accident which still also uses the incorrect russian name of chernobyl these may seem like minor trivialities but if wikipedia is to continue to be the excellent resource it is then this needs to happen and it seems only fair to the millions of ukrainians around the world to whom these names 'belong' much as we would not want names of us cities to be listed only in icelandic in light of recent events in ukraine i think these correction take on a special sense of immediacy when one considers the struggle ukraine currently is facing against russian aggression the names like those of any country are a viatl part of their innate identity being a novice i'm not sure i'm the right person to do these changes but perhaps you and your people have someone who is adept at doing what is probably an easy cut replace for thos who know how to do such things thank you in advance for your kind help