Lojban for Beginners lesson 12 answers

["Aleksej R. Serdyukov" <deletesoftware@yandex.ru>]

Exercise 2:
1. Moscow

(St. Petersburg [sanktˈpɛtɛrspurg],

I guess it is how it sounds in English? Why Moscow is more like in 
Russian, then?
At least in Moscow pronunciation, it will be: [ˌsankt̆pʲetʲerˈburk]


Moscow [məsˈkfa])

[məsˈkva]
Sounds don't change in "кв"/"kv".