On May 10, 3:11*pm, alex_t wrote:
The latin alphabet is used frequently in russia

Russia uses Cyrillic alphabet and latin alphabet is used very rarely
(the only related example I can think about is tiny transcriptions of
station names on some Moscow Metro maps).

I think there is almost a one-to-one translation between cyrillic and
latin characters, so it's nothing like the leap that one has to make
to understand Japanese.