Cyrillic Subject Encoding in Mail.app

I have a problem with wrong cyrillic subject font on the message list pane in Mail.app
Though on the message preview pane everything looks well.
It has been happening with with only some emails, but it's quite disappointing...
Can you please advise any workaround for this issue?

etresoft wrote:
That is just incorrectly encoded on the sender's side. From the other headers, it looks like a Microsoft bug. Apple Mail is displaying what it receives. The subject line is a plain text header. To include any non-ASCII on the subject line it must be encoded as I have shown above. Otherwise, there is no way to tell that the characters should be something else in Cyrillic.
That's correct.  On the other hand,  a more robust Mail could guess the subject encoding from the body charset, which it apparently does when displaying the full message, but not in the message list.

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