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2) I don't know about Russia, but in other Slavic countries Dusha/ Duša, Duška, Dusana, etc. are legitimate names (all derived from 'dusha' meaning soul).
3) The Russian Dasha I know uses it as a nickname for Daria. I've never heart of it as a form of Dorothy and it doesn't seem very plausible to me. Russian diminutives are coined by adding -sha to a part of the original name (Maria = Masha, Daria = Dasha, Natalia = Tasha, Aleksandr = Sasha, etc.), so Dosha would be a nickname for Dorotea.

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