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Name of Russian who's ashamed to take part? (5)

Ross

I believe the answer is:

sasha

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'name of russian' is the definition.
'sasha' can be an answer for 'russian' (I've seen this before). I am unsure of the 'name of' bit.

'who's ashamed to take part?' is the wordplay.
'to take part?' says the answer is hidden in the clue (I've seen 'taking part' mean this).
'SASHA' is hidden in the letters of 'whos ashamed'.

Can you help me to learn more?

(Other definitions for sasha that I've seen before include "Possible Russian" , "Russian boy" , "young man from Russia" .)

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