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How to Pronounce Kyiv Yuri Shevchuk, a lecturer in Ukrainian at Columbia University, demonstrates how to pronounce the name of Ukraine’s capital.

This week, NPR decided to officially adapt on-the-air pronunciation of Kyiv, the capital formerly spelled Kiev, to sound closer to the way it's said in Ukrainian.