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            <p>I was born in Latvia, which at the time was a part of the USSR.
My birth certificates are in Russian, and my name in Cyrillic is
<em>Артем Шинкаров</em>. Its correct transliteration is <em>Artem Shinkarov</em>.</p>
<p>Unfortunately, in my passport, my name is transliterated as
<em>Artjoms Šinkarovs</em>. Mind extra <em>s</em>-es at the end, <em>jo</em> in the
middle and <em>Š</em> instead of <em>Sh</em>. This is something I cannot change
due to crazy Latvian rules.</p>
<p>In the UK, my name got transliterated again, simply
by throwing away the diacritical symbols; so I ended up with
<em>Artjoms Sinkarovs</em>.</p>
<p>While Latvia recognises that the transliteration mismatch is a
problem, no proper solution has ever been implemented. It is
possible to put the correct spelling of your name in
the passport, which I surely did:</p>
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<img src="./images/passport.png" alt="The second page of my passport" />
<figcaption aria-hidden="true">The second page of my passport</figcaption>
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<p>However, turning this spelling into the official one, in all
the documents, is a total nightmare.</p>
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