Does This Mean We'll Be Eating Chicken Kyiv?
"Kiev" is out and "Kyiv" is in as the spelling for the capital of Ukraine, the State Department says. But the change isn't part of some grand scheme to woo the former Soviet state into the Western orbit, the folks at Foggy Bottom say. "I don't think this decision has anything reflective in it," State Department spokesman Tom Casey said Thursday.
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