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Lydia Leftcoast

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1. It was once spelled "Lvov." That's the Russian spelling

Reply to Loaded Liberal Dem (Original post)

Sat Feb 22, 2014, 10:08 PM

Feb 2014

It's similar with "Kiev" (Russian spelling) and "Kyiv" (Ukrainian spelling).

Under the Russian Tsarist Empire, Ukrainian was just considered a dialect of Russian. The Communists recognized Ukrainian as a separate language and allowed certain expressions of Ukrainian culture, but as in other minority areas, there were limits. No religious or separatist expressions were allowed.

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Why analysts touting Ukraine's East-West division are just plain wrong. [View all] Loaded Liberal Dem Feb 2014 OP

It was once spelled "Lvov." That's the Russian spelling Lydia Leftcoast Feb 2014 #1

I honestly didn't know that Loaded Liberal Dem Feb 2014 #2

Before that, it was spelled Lemberg FarCenter Feb 2014 #4

And before that, it was Lwów, in the Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth muriel_volestrangler Feb 2014 #5

No "analyst" worth the name has a nice purely binary split. Igel Feb 2014 #3