Ukraine has spent much of autumn 2019 in the international headlines, as a result of the Trump impeachment inquiry and the promise of progress in the Russo-Ukrainian peace process. This spike in media attention has helped revive outside interest in all things Ukrainian, with mixed results. Many journalists have clearly struggled to make sense of Ukraine’s Byzantine political swamp, while others have found the Steinmeier Formula remarkably un-German in its baffling inexactitude, leading to the usual litany of bad takes and outright falsehoods.
Ukrainian vs. Russian Language
OP-ED
Peter Dickinson: Kyiv not Kiev – why spelling matters
On Aug. 14, 2019, the AP Stylebook began spelling the name of the Ukrainian capital as Kyiv, not Kiev.
