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# Is she a native Russian or Ukrainian speaker?
(I helped save b3ta! Tribs 🦇 ↓ dn ʎɐʍ sᴉɥʇ ↓🦇, Sat 26 Feb 2022, 17:28, archived)
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Ukrainian. I am aware from a scientific point of view that she constitutes one data point and doesn't prove anything, it may be true that most Ukrainians spell it Kyiv, I wouldn't know. But for now I am happy that the traditional English spelling Kiev is not morally wrong. (And after all, the fact that Putin is a depraved murderer does NOT mean that all Russians are depraved murderers. I lived in a Bulgarian ski resort for seven years and met lots of Eastern Europeans, Russians, Romanians, Moldovans, Ukrainians, Serbians and Macedonians as well as Bulgars, and I can assure you that very few of them were depraved murderers.)
(Great_Boo, Sat 26 Feb 2022, 18:06, archived)
# Zelensky’s a native Russian speaker, so that may not be the most important factor.
(Pie of Meat ___°¬¯O¯____\o/_____/\_,____Y¯¯Y, Sat 26 Feb 2022, 21:37, archived)