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| English | Russian |
| down tools | объявлять забастовку |
| employ harsh tools | использовать жёсткие средства и методы (authorities increasingly employ harsh tools to silence dissent including labeling journalists and media "foreign agents.") |
| separatist tool | орудие сепаратизма (They use language as a separatist tool.  theguardian.com Alex_Odeychuk) |
| tool for political manipulation | инструмент политических манипуляций (агентства Thomson Reuters Alex_Odeychuk) |
| tool for the authorities' repression | инструмент политических репрессий (of ... – ..., направленных против ...; CNN Alex_Odeychuk) |
| tool of power | инструмент власти (Andrey Truhachev) |
| tool of power | орудие власти (Andrey Truhachev) |
| tool of propaganda | пропагандистское оружие (He views the Chinese-owned app TikTok as a tool of propaganda and "an instrument of warfare" that warps the viewpoints of the younger generations, as well as mines their personal data. coasttocoastam.com ART Vancouver) |