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Because Russian lacks the combined consonant sound 'th', an 'f' is used instead. Russian Cyrillic is also phonetic, so the letter 'e' with a long sound in English is transliterated as the vowel 'и' in Russian, representing the same sound.

The spelling then becomes 'Afena', or Афина when using Cyrillic.

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