Anatoly Karlin notes that far more confident Western nations are cool with the article “the”…
Read Anatoly’s article on the matter of confidence deficient nations of Eastern Europe trying to control language.
While we see a lot of institutions in the West adopting the spelling Kyiv (out of pure Russophobia in my opinion), the prononciation of Kyiv must be very difficult for the Anglo-saxons. 
Bryan MacDonald notes that while the spelling has changed, the pronunciation has not…
Insomniac Resurrected 