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chapotraphouse • 3 months ago

Russian language is as much a part of Ukraine as Ukranian is. You won't see many in the media calling it Kyiv before Ukraine turned nationalist under Poroshenko

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Russian language is as much a part of Ukraine as Ukranian is. You won't see many in the media calling it Kyiv before Ukraine turned nationalist under Poroshenko

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chapotraphouse • 3 months ago

https://www.reuters.com/article/world/ukraine-passes-language-law-irritating-president-elect-and-russia-idUSKCN1S110Y/

Literally the whole media switched spelling around this time.

iRaq and iRan are silly but the "Kyiv" stuff is different.

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SadArtemis [she/her]
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3 months ago

even the frothist of frothers don't go complaining about it (I hope)

Even if they did, they should stay mad. None of the Anglo settler-colonial names are legitimate after all.

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