It would be more helpful if you supplied a hex/oct dump of the data (Devel::Peek is okay) and the actual code that does not work for you, complete with accurate, not paraphrased, error messages so we don't have to speculate. Report the facts, not your observations about them. I'll assume that your made your observation correctly and it is indeed double-encoded UTF-8, instead of the more likelier misencoding occuring in the wild: Windows-1251 plus UTF-8.

The character string Гарри Каспаров would be UTF-8 double-encoded to "\303\220\302\223\303\220\302\260\303\221\302\200\303\221\302\200\303\220\302\270 \303\220\302\232\303\220\302\260\303\221\302\201\303\220\302\277\303\220\302\260\303\221\302\200\303\220\302\276\303\220\302\262". Assigning that to a variable and decoding twice works for me and gives no error message. 

    use strictures;
    use Encode qw();
    my $what = "\303\220\302\223\303\220\302\260\303\221\302\200\303\2
+21\302\200\303\220\302\270 \303\220\302\232\303\220\302\260\303\221\3
+02\201\303\220\302\277\303\220\302\260\303\221\302\200\303\220\302\27
+6\303\220\302\262";
    $what = Encode::decode('utf8',$what);
    $what = Encode::decode('utf8',$what);

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In reply to Re: Utf8 experts help! by Anonymous Monk
in thread Utf8 experts help! by chessgui

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