AHC Russian with Latin Alphabet

With a POD after the Princes of Kiev become Princes of Moscovy, how can we get Russia to predominantly switch alphabets. If the way, Koreans changed their writing system, so this isn't that far fetched.
 
Ultimately, it would lead to the demise of the Cyrillic alphabet everywhere else. Some critics say it would require a large number of diacritical marks; but Polish, another Slavic language, does it with fewer diacritics than French.
 
Alternatively, could Russian have been written with the Greek alphabet? I know Cyrillic is derived from it, but was that necessary?
 
Alternatively, could Russian have been written with the Greek alphabet? I know Cyrillic is derived from it, but was that necessary?

Well, Russian has some common sounds that Greek doesn't. zh sh ch shch come to mind.
Here's my previous attempt at expanding the Greek alphabet to match.
Here's my idea for an extended Greek script (assuming lack of Islam).

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Ultimately, it would lead to the demise of the Cyrillic alphabet everywhere else. Some critics say it would require a large number of diacritical marks; but Polish, another Slavic language, does it with fewer diacritics than French.
I agree. One could get by with relatively few modifications to Roman letters - one to show iotised vowels (if not using j+vowel), one for palatialised consonants such as sh, zh etc, et al.
 
Russian, like English, is phonetically inconsistent. English is worse for foreign words because they are spelled in their original languages, diacritics omitted, and speakers are expected to retain (memorize) the original pronunciation. Russian does the opposite, they MUST respell foreign words and they do it phonetically. Now, if you Latinize Russian, all of the traditional words get spelled phonetically. But foreign words would run into the same problem you have in English.
 
Russian, like English, is phonetically inconsistent. English is worse for foreign words because they are spelled in their original languages, diacritics omitted, and speakers are expected to retain (memorize) the original pronunciation. Russian does the opposite, they MUST respell foreign words and they do it phonetically. Now, if you Latinize Russian, all of the traditional words get spelled phonetically. But foreign words would run into the same problem you have in English.
It could be solved in the same way it is done in other slavic languages.
 
Now, if you Latinize Russian, all of the traditional words get spelled phonetically. But foreign words would run into the same problem you have in English.

If you run into the same problem you do with English, that's OK. I mean English is working fine once you get fluent (which is all that's needed for a language). At least most words you can figure out how to pronounce it by looking at them even if you don't have it in your memory.

I agree. One could get by with relatively few modifications to Roman letters - one to show iotised vowels (if not using j+vowel), one for palatialised consonants such as sh, zh etc, et al.

OK, that's pretty good.

Something like this:
http://steen.free.fr/poilschi/index.html
used for Russian would look interesting, would solve problem of soft sign/iotified vowels without using much diacritics.

Good, a bit of modification should make it work with Russian
 
If the Poles conquer Russia during, say, the Time of Troubles, then would a Russian Latin alphabet similar to the Ukrainian or Belarusian Latin alphabets have emerged?
 
Russian, like English, is phonetically inconsistent. English is worse for foreign words because they are spelled in their original languages, diacritics omitted, and speakers are expected to retain (memorize) the original pronunciation. Russian does the opposite, they MUST respell foreign words and they do it phonetically. Now, if you Latinize Russian, all of the traditional words get spelled phonetically. But foreign words would run into the same problem you have in English.
Most European languages manage just about fine like this. At least, Russian words would be possibly written more phonetically, though they may opt for an etymological Romanized orthography anyway. The wouldn't have to chose a phonetic respelling of foreign words, but nothing would stop them to do that anyway (some Roman script languages do that, Estonian IIRC). The main cause of "inconsistency" in Russian spelling is stress, which varies rather unpredictably across morphological paradigms and heavily affects vowel sounds in the process. For Russians, is probably more economical to keep the "inconsistent" spellings in order to have word paradigms look ortographically the same, perhaps they may add a stress diacritic for clarity while they're at it (it actually exists in Cyrillic but is optional and extremely rarely used).
 
With a POD after the Princes of Kiev become Princes of Moscovy, how can we get Russia to predominantly switch alphabets. If the way, Koreans changed their writing system, so this isn't that far fetched.

Strictly speaking, the Princes of Kiev did NOT became Princes of "Moscovy". "Muscovite state" (Great Princedom and then Tsardom) evolved from the Princedom of Vladimir which took "the 1st place" from Kiev in the end of the XII century. But probably the easiest way would be for what you want to happen is for Rus (still Kievan) to adopt Catholicism instead of Orthodoxy. Within your time frame (post-Mongolian Russian state) it is probably too late even if you allow Polish prince Wladislaw to became a Tsar at the end of the Time of the Troubles.
 
If the Poles conquer Russia during, say, the Time of Troubles, then would a Russian Latin alphabet similar to the Ukrainian or Belarusian Latin alphabets have emerged?

Ukrainian alphabet (AFAIK) is not Latin and neither is Belarussian. There are couple letters which look like Latin but they existed in the Russian alphabet until the communists removed them. But the answer to your question is "most probably no". Condition of Wladislaw's accession to the throne of Moscow was his conversion and if at some point he decided to "get back", he would be most probably killed, as happened to the false-Dmitri I: the main reason for his assassination was his attempt to establish what was considered "Latin habits". Outright "unconditional" conquest was pretty much impossible (King Sigismund tried it) and probably completely impossible as something sustainable.
 
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