I don't know of any rules ... only that I've only ever seen it as Kiev in English texts.

HTH

Mary

Other than the country itself establishing its own transliteration of a city (and Ukraine has given us "Kyiv"), I would consider the most authoritative and recognized authority to be the United Nations. The web sites from both the US Embassy in Ukraine and the United Nations consider "Kyiv" to be correct. However (gulp!) you will notice from the two URLs listed below that the old standard "Kiev" is given, possibly due to ease of recognition. Thus, Kyiv is more correct, but Kiev is more recognizable. Pick whichever one your audience will most likely feel comfortable with. (And needless to say, if your audience enjoys a Ukrainian heritage, Kyiv is the obvious choice!)

Best of luck!

the same way as you don't write Bruxelles or Moskva or whatever. By the way, the Y in Kyiv stands for I and the I stands for E, so it is not a new name at all.

ok.

With the collapse of the USSR many countries (like the one I live in ) have become independent.
As a result they all want to be different and 'new'. That has brought in a tremendous opposition of NAMES, due to the difference in their pronunciation in the national languages.

Take Belorussia - this is terribly rude (although Mr. Putin still does call it Belorussia) to call BELARUS Belorussia or Byelorussia.

The same with (the) Ukraine. The article used to be there, but now... Do not even try to call it the Ukraine, they will kill you!!!

So Kiev is the Russian propunciation/transcription. Russian is no more officially (at least) spoken in UKRAINE!!! So the correct one is Kyiv!!!! KYIV - sounds Ukranian and is actually Ukranian transcription. Do respect us, the 'newly' independent, call a spade a spade , and call KYIV KYIV ...

Best Regards