Romanization

First names and place names are Romanized according to the original language of the country and commonly used international spellings. For example, Kyiv is Romanized according to the United States Board on Geographic Names. Lviv is Romanized without an apostrophe since it is a commonly used international spelling of this city’s name. Due to the nature of the subject and geography—the post-Soviet world—most foreign words are Romanized from Russian, while some are Romanized from other post-Soviet languages. A note on the original language is provided for languages other than Russian. Some commonly used Russian words, such as perestroika and glasnost, are spelled in the way they are commonly spelled in the international media.

All interviewee names have been changed according to the requirements of human subject research. Therefore, there was no spelling preference for the interviewee pseudonyms. Instead, they were Romanized according to the Library of Congress Romanization Table for Ukrainian language, as these interviews were collected in Ukraine.