Quote Originally Posted by alexsms
Book-r-YE-yev - is fine. That's how it is pronounced in Russian. The correct spelling I think should be Bukreev or Bukreyev (according to transliteration rules), because Putin is spelled Putin , not Poutin or Pootin.
Quote Originally Posted by Marcus View Post
Really? That's probably an unknown dialect.
"Book-r-YE-yev" here you wrote "ye" separately of the preceding "r" that implies separate pronunciation, which in turn comes to "ye" been pronounced as in "yes" with "i the short" consonant just after "r". While it should be pronounced like "re" (ре) not "r-ye" (рье).

If Marcus were not so sarcastic it would be of more help to the forum users to understand the subject.