AFAIK 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

AFAIK 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).