Pravdateam/Lexicon

This section of the Style Guide contains ready-to-use translations of some set expressions, clichés, proper nouns and adjectives.

Please note that this section is a structural element of the Style Guide and therefore is obligatory for each translator working or volunteering for the project.

If the word or phrase is included into the Lexicon, then it shall be used while translating for Ukrayinska Pravda. If you consider some spelling to be incorrect, please use the discussion page. Please do not change anything without the prior discussion.

Last Names
Akhmetov

Bezsmertnyi

Bohatyrova

Chernomyrdin

Chernovetskyi

Chornovil

Gongadze

Holovaty

Hrushevskyi

Kipiani

Klitschko (an exception due to his wide name recognition in the West)

Kostenko

Kuchma

Lukashenka (NOT Lukashenko)

Lutsenko

Lytvyn

Medvedchuk

Melnychenko

Moroz

Omelchenko

Poroshenko

Putin

Rybachuk

Shevchenko

Tarasyuk

Tomenko

Tymoshenko

Yanukovych

Yatseniuk

Yekhanurov

Yushchenko

Zinchenko

Zvarych

First Names
Anatoliy

Andriy

Arseniy

Bohdan

Borys

Evhen

Heorhiy (BUT  Georgiy Gongadze, because Gongadze himself used this spelling)

Hryhoriy

Leonid

Kateryna

Maria

Markian

Mykhailo

Mykola

Oleh

Oleksandr

Olena

Olha

Pavlo

Petro

Raisa

Rinat

Roman

Ruslan

Ruslana

Serhiy

Svitlana

Taras

Vakhtang

Vasyl

Viktor

Vitaliy

Volodymyr

Vyacheslav

Yaroslav

Yevhen

Yulia

Yuriy

Countries and Nationalities
Argentina, Argentine, Argentines

Armenia, Armenian, Armenians

Austria, Austrian, Austrians

Australia, Australian, Australians

Azerbaijan, Azeri, Azeris

Belarus (NOT Belarussia), Belarusian, Belarusians

Brazil, Brazilian, Brazilians

China, Chinese, Chinese

Czech Republic, Czech, Czechs

England, English, English

Estonia, Estonian, Estonians

Egypt, Egyptian, Egyptians

Finland, Finnish, Finns

France, French, French

Georgia, Georgian, Georgians

Germany, German, Germans

Greece, Greek, Greeks

Ireland, Irish, Irish

Israel, Israeli, Israelis

Italy, Italian, Italians

Japan, Japanese, Japanese

Kazakhstan, Kazakh, Kazakhs

Korea, Korean, Koreans

Kyrgyzstan, Kyrgyz, Kyrgyz

Latvia, Latvian, Latvians

Lithuania, Lithuanian, Lithuanians

Moldova, Moldovan, Moldovans

Norway, Norwegian, Norwegians

Poland, Polish, Poles

Portugal, Portuguese, Portuguese

Russia, Russian, Russians

Slovakia, Slovak, Slovaks

Slovenia, Slovene, Slovenes

Spain, Spanish, Spanish (Spaniards when referring to a specific group of people)

Sweden, Swedish, Swedes

Tajikistan, Tajik, Tajiks

Turkey, Turkish, Turks

Turkmenistan, Turkmen, Turkmen

United Kingdom, British, British

United States (also United States of America), American, Americans

Uzbekistan, Uzbek, Uzbeks

Political Parties
Communist Party of Ukraine (CPU)

Our Ukraine People’s Union (NSNU) (use “the” when alone; do not use “the” when followed by “party”)

Party of Regions (PRU)

Party of Industrialists and Entrepreneurs (PPPU)

People’s Movement of Ukraine (Rukh)

Pora

Reforms and Order Party (PRP)

Social Democratic Party of Ukraine (united) (SDPU(o))

Socialist Party of Ukraine (SPU) (can be abbreviated to Socialist Party on second reference)

Ukrainian People’s Party (UNP)

Yulia Tymoshenko Bloc (BYuT)

Governmental Agencies
Parliament (Verkhovna Rada should be included in parenthesis on first reference)

Central Election Commission

Ministry of Defense

Ministry of Finance

Ministry of Justice

National Security and Defense Council

Office of the Prosecutor General (OPG)

Department in Charge of Combating the Organized Crime at the Ministry of Interior of Ukraine (UBOZ)

Department of the Criminal Investigations at the Office of the Prosecutor General

Courts

 * The Supreme Court
 * The High Commercial Court of Ukraine
 * The High Administrative Court of Ukraine
 * The High Military Court of Ukraine

(All titles above shall be used only with the)


 * Appellate Court for Kyivska Oblast
 * Appellate Commercial Court for Kharkivska Oblast
 * Commercial Court for the City of Kyiv
 * Pecherskiy District Court

Organizations
Any acting and former, international and domestic, military and pacifist organizations, as well as any other social arrangements meeting the general qualifying features of an organization shall be included here.


 * Organization of Ukrainian Nationalists (OUN)
 * United Nations (UN) Avoid: UNO
 * Ukrainian Insurgent Army (UPA)

Corporations

 * Interpipe
 * Kryvorizhstal [OJSC]
 * System Capital Management (SCM)
 * Ukrtelecom [OJSC]

Media

 * Dzerkalo Tyzhnia
 * Ukrayinska Pravda

TV Channels

 * Pyatiy Kanal TV Channel
 * 1+1 TV Channel
 * Inter TV Channel
 * Pershyi Natsionalnyi TV Channel
 * Novy TV Channel (the correct version should be "Novyi" but the channel calls itself "Novy")
 * STB TV Channel
 * ICTV TV Channel

See the relevant section of the Proper nouns chapter for details.

Official positions

 * Head of the Presidential Secretariat

Legislation and Regulatory Documents

 * Constitution of Ukraine
 * Civil Code of Ukraine

Most common misspellings

 * Mass media (without dash)