World News | Court rejects family’s application to change Russian surname

BERLIN, April 25 (AP) — A German court has rejected a request by a married couple to legally change their Russian-language surnames, citing negative repercussions they say they have experienced since the war in Ukraine began.

The couple had tried to force officials in the Rhineland-Palatinate state in southwestern Germany to approve the change, claiming they and their daughter suffered in everyday life because of their surname.

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The Koblenz Regional Administrative Court did not provide the couple’s surnames under German privacy rules.

The judge rejected the German-born couple’s request on the grounds that the reasons they gave for the change were insufficient, the court said on Tuesday.

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“The fact that a surname is of foreign origin or does not sound German is usually not in itself a significant reason for a name change,” the court said in a statement.

It said the negative treatment the couple claimed to have suffered since the start of Russia’s invasion of Ukraine had not been severe enough to warrant a name change, noting the family’s financial situation had not been affected.

The couple can appeal the ruling. (Associated Press)

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