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This article may need to be rewritten entirely to comply with Wikipedia’s quality standards. Eastern Slavic parents select a given name for a newborn child. Almost all first names are single. Most doubled first names are written with a hyphen: Mariya-Tereza. Being highly synthetic languages, Eastern Slavic treats personal names as grammatical nouns and apply the same rules of inflection and derivation to them as for other nouns.