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I'm sorry, but I think "Алиоша" is closer :oops:[/quote]
Offtopic, but once I saw a group of French people boarding here in Nizhny Novgorod on a flight of Tatarstan airlines to Moscow. It was...

Не согласна. "Альйоша" ужасно звучит.[/quote]
There is no closer approximation. Remember that English has no palatilization.