Sentence examples of "заложниках" in Russian with translation "pawn"
Слишком часто киприоты ведут себя, как беспомощные заложники в более крупной игре Греции с Турцией или с "великими державами".
All too often, Cypriots present themselves as helpless pawns in a wider game played by Greece, Turkey, or the "great powers."
Что же касается Лубанги, то он один из многих лидеров Конго, сделавших гражданское население заложниками войны, унёсшей за прошлое десятилетие более пяти миллионов жизней.
As for Lubanga, he is one of many in the Congo who has used civilians as pawns in a war that has cost more than five million lives in the past decade.
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