>>14682822Kiev doesn't really make sense, but neither does Kyiv. It should be Kiïv. There should have been a one-to-one character correspondence established between the Roman and Cyrillic alphabets ages ago, starting from a redoing of how Russian is Romanized since it's the most widely-spoken Cyrillic-using language and then adding other characters as needed for the remaining languages that use Cyrillic.
For the "i" character that's been eliminated from written Russian, diacritic markers on the Roman "i" would signify all its variants just fine. In the case of Kiev/Kyiv, the Ukrainians use "ï" as the third character in their own Cyrillic rendering of it, so "Kiïv" is the obvious choice.
