Posted by Eugene Volokh: Those Narrow-Minded Russkies: http://volokh.com/archives/archive_2009_03_01-2009_03_07.shtml#1236448190
"A Muscovite with digits in his name has been declared outside the law," reads the [1]headline. The offender, ��Ч � �Ф 260602 (I hope this encoding works for you folks) is now six and a half, but the government has refused to give him a birth certificate, which I take it portends more refusals of important documents in the future. The name is an abbreviation for "biological object of a person of the families Voronin and Frolov, [born] 26 June 2002." I don't get it: They allow backwards Rs and upside down Vs, but balk at digits? For more on U.S. decisions on the subject, see [2]here (though they are about name changes, not initial naming decisions). Thanks to Victor Steinbok for the pointer. References 1. http://www.homepage.ru/news/215796-moskvicha-s-tsiframi-v-imeni-ob-yavili-vne-zakona 2. http://volokh.com/posts/chain_1217433440.shtml
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