Epic fail

I don't need to use google to find the correct spelling of Кіїв, but I did feel the need to use Cyrillic because there is no yi in any of the Latin alphabets I checked. I think the Latynka would be Kijiv, but, taking my cue from the majority of Ukrainians, I resist Latynka as much as I resist the Russified form, Kiev.

Now that I've looked a bit harder, I've found an i with diaeresis, so in future, when directly addressing you on the subject of the Capital of Ukraine, I'll write Kiïv so that you don't have to trouble your poor little head over funny foreign letters. To everybody else, I'll continue to use Cyrillic, since you seem to be the only person who has such a struggle.

That's strange. Why do you feel the need to use the cyrillic, even though we have no yi in English, considering you are posting on an English language forum? It also suprises me that someone so worldly and well versed in languages as yourself that you would do something so inconsistent as to use the lowly latin alphabet spelling of Vladimir Putin and 'ms' Zhukova? At least be consistent with your linguistics.