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The old trick of having your name mentioned in any public document issued in other country in whatever spelling you want doesn't apply in Belarus? Had to do tha
by Muromec 6y ago
The old trick of having your name mentioned in any public document issued in other country in whatever spelling you want doesn't apply in Belarus? Had to do that, because my name looks more like a barcode when transliterated from original Ukrainian spelling.
- dmitriid 6y agoAFAIK Belarus is very rule-oriented when it comes to transliterating names. I heard it's become better in the last few years, but there are definitely plenty of Yauhenis :D It also often boils down to the specific clerk in charge. I personally am a Russian-speaker from Moldova, and I had four more classmates with the name Дмитрий. When we were getting our first passports, I said that I want "Dmitrii" as the name/transliteration. The woman at the counter just asked "Are you sure?", shrugged and accepted my application. All my friends suggested their own spellings at their respective passport offices, all got rejected because "the proper spelling of the name in Moldova is Dumitru" (which is the Romanian version of the name).