I think Russians do get to skirt a few of the problems... if they believe their systems are only used by native Russians with standard Russian names. Of course

I think Russians do get to skirt a few of the problems... if they believe their systems are only used by native Russians with standard Russian names. Of course the whole point of the article you mentioned is that making such assumptions leads to odd behavior. I (an American) lived in Russia for a while. One time I was having a couch delivered to my apartment and had to give the store my full name. I was delighted to see my middle name show up on the receipt in the отчество (patronymic) field with the Russian patronymic suffix ович attached. I still got the couch no problem, but I got a laugh out of their attempt to shoehorn my (clearly not Russian) names into their naming paradigm.