A name written in one alphabet is now found in another

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A sanctions list may publish a name only in Cyrillic; a news report about the same person uses the Latin spelling. Until now, searching one did not find the other, and the search reported nothing — which reads as "not on any list".

Every name in the local indexes now carries its transliterations as well as its original spelling, so a Latin spelling reaches a Cyrillic record and a Cyrillic spelling reaches a Latin one. Searching "Gazprom" now finds ПАО «ГАЗПРОМ»; searching "Lukashenko" finds the designations published as ЛУКАШЭНКА.

One older fault was found and fixed along the way. The Ukrainian police datasets publish Latin transliterations alongside the Cyrillic names, and a technical detail meant those were matched only if the searcher happened to type them in capitals: "IVANOV" found 2,973 records and "Ivanov" found none. The site was reporting that nobody had been found about people who were there all along.

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