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This decision is forced by it being hard for most English speakers to pronounce Vyacheslav.

• gambiting 2y ago
  Sure, but is it his decision to make, and if yes - are we ok to respect it? I'm from a slavic country myself and my name is almost impossible to pronounce correctly in English - but I continue to use it anyway. If he wanted to do that, he could have done it.
  • pavel_lishin 2y ago
    My name is "Pavel", and usually ask Americans to put the accent on the second syllable - which is incorrect, but they can't pronounce my name correctly anyway when they put the accent on the first syllable, and it sounds more wrong to me than the way I prefer to have it pronounced. Apologies to all the other Pavels out there; I've been training everyone I've met to pronounce it wrong. But it's the way I prefer to be addressed.
    • airstrike 2y ago
      Now I'm curious what the _right_ pronunciation is!
      • pavel_lishin 2y ago
        You can look it up on Youtube.