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Most of the characters with Russian-origin surnames in this AU are from Sinnoh! Unlike Hokkaido (the part of Japan that Sinnoh is based on) in real life, Sinnoh in this AU has a large population of people with poké!Russian ancestry as well as poké!Japanese, with many people being some mix of both. As a result, someone from Sinnoh is just as likely to have a Russian-language surname as they are a Japanese one, hence why you’ll see some of each in the section for Sinnoh families on the blog.