This section features the noteworthy events and people of 2019 that defy easy classification (or could fit under more than one of our Year in Review categories).
— After Ukraine’s Ministry of Foreign Affairs launched its #CorrectUA campaign October 2018, appealing to foreign media and airports to use “Kyiv” rather than “Kiev,” 2019 saw marked progress in this area. In April, Toronto’s Pearson International Airport – the largest in Canada and the only one with direct flights to Ukraine – changed the spelling on both its arrival/departure boards and website. Airports across the globe followed suit, and by July 1 some 50 international airports had announced the change. On August 14, the Associated Press Stylebook notified its users that the name of the Ukraine’s capital would now be spelled Kyiv, “in line with the Ukrainian government’s preferred transliteration to English…”