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| Subject | Russian | English |
| gen. | высшие государственные чиновники | Civil Service mandarins (It often seems that true power lies with the Civil Service mandarins, rather than MPs and cabinet ministers. CALD Alexander Demidov) |
| gen. | высший государственный чиновник | mandarin (A person of much importance; esp. a leading government official or politician, a reactionary or secretive bureaucrat. E20. Mail on Sunday Civil servants dropping into private..jobs with salaries..three times what they earned as Whitehall mandarins. SOED Alexander Demidov) |
| gen. | государственный чиновник высшего ранга | civil servant (raf) |