>Once you get foreign names, this becomes weird even with European names, and they are often related to a degree to Russian names. Asian names become weird to t

>Once you get foreign names, this becomes weird even with European names, and they are often related to a degree to Russian names. Asian names become weird to the extreme, especially with names like Hui which are a cuss word in Russian [1] John -> Johnovich may work, but Huich will not :) In this case registry official simply starts writing random shit into the system and it becomes your problem. At least that's how it was with "not so Russian names" in USSR times -- just write whatever Russian name that starts with same letter.