Proper transliteration from Russian Cyrillic into the Latin alphabet?

This has long been a vexed question, with two schools of thought. It is even worse with Greek, where there is a traditional transliteration invented by the Romans and based on how Greeks spoke when the Romans first arrived around 200 BC. Since Greek Independence in 1827 there has been more and more demand by the Greeks themselves that their letters be romanized according to the way Greek is currently pronounced, so the foreigner may fail to realize that what is spelled in two ways is still the same place name or personal name..

There is also the problem of the nationality of the transliterator. KHRUSHCHOV begins with a J in Spanish, a CH in Welsh, and there is in any language the argument about the final consonant (often changed into FF in French, not to mention the O (make it an E?).

If you are writing for publication you will have to obey the dictat of your publisher. Otherwise I suggest the Library of Congress practice as providing a well known international standard.

http://www.loc.gov/catdir/cpso/romanization/russia... is what Laurence is referring to.