Hello Philip!

This is a mistake!

In polish Warszawa, English - Warsaw - OK. In Poland Latin letters (a, b, c, d, e...). No need to transliterate for international presentation.
In Ukraine Cyrillic letters (а, б, в, г, ґ, д, е, є, ж, з, ...) It is different. For international presentation You need transliterate Cyrillic letters to Latin letters.

In Russian (Cyrillic) - Киев, English transliterate - Kiev - NOT CORRECT!!! For international presentation. It is Russian version. This is not an official international name of the capital of Ukraine! It is Russian name.

In Ukraine the Ukrainian language. It`s different! It is not Russian!

In Ukrainian (Cyrillic) - Київ, official English transliterate - Kyiv - CORRECT

Kyiv - this name used by NATO, UN, Council of US Geographic Names, US government, Canada government, English-speaking diplomatic institutions and other....

You cat see:
official page MFA

http://mfa.gov.ua/en/about-ukraine/info/regions
Parliament of Ukraine:
http://zakon0.rada.gov.ua/laws/show/55-2010-%D0%BF

Try translit:
https://pasport.org.ua/vazhlivo/transliteratsiya

You can make a official request to Ukraine (MFA): http://mfa.gov.ua/en
e-mail MFA: public.info@mfa.gov.ua

THIS IS A MISTAKE! IT NEEDS TO BE FIXED!

Correctly write KYIV

https://uk.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D0%A2%D1%80%D0%B0%D0%BD%D1%81%D0%BB%D1%96%D1%82%D0%B5%D1%80%D0%B0%D1%86%D1%96%D1%8F

https://uk.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D0%9B%D0%B0%D1%82%D0%B8%D0%BD%D1%96%D0%B7%D0%B0%D1%86%D1%96%D1%8F_%D1%83%D0%BA%D1%80%D0%B0%D1%97%D0%BD%D1%81%D1%8C%D0%BA%D0%BE%D1%97_%D0%BC%D0%BE%D0%B2%D0%B8

2017-12-08 17:50 GMT+00:00 Philip Paeps <philip@trouble.is>:
On 2017-12-07 22:07:19 (+0200), gocdoms gocdoms wrote:
City Kyiv is not Kiev.
The *founder* of Kyiv is *Kyi*. Not Kie!
Please see attached picture.

This already came up this week.

http://mm.icann.org/pipermail/tz/2017-December/025680.html

Just as "København" is called "Copenhagen" in English and "Warszawa" is called "Warsaw", the English name for "Київ" is "Kiev".  The tz database is not the right place to campaign for changing the names of cities in English.

Philip

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Philip Paeps
Senior Reality Engineer
Ministry of Information