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To write Иван in English it has to be "Ivan". English people may pronounce it incorrectly, e.g. like Ivan, instead of the correct ee-van, but that's just English speakers' ignorance of correct...

But you said you don't like how everything goes into English... Иван is Ivan...

Also James is Джеймс.
ай is the sound in time, bye, cry

Again, Volodymyr, you've not read /understand what I've written. Tamerlane has specifically asked for a Russian name, if he wanted to keep his English name, then he wouldn't have to change his name...

You've missed the point:
When we, as foreigners with foreign names, go to Russia, we use our English name, because that's our name.
So James, would be Джеймс, not the Russian equivalent Иван.
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I don't think it's a requirement of joining the church.

I don't get it either, people will be like "where's your name from", "It's Russian", "So you're Russian?", "....no.", "Riiiiiiight", "I just...