| Subject | English | Russian |
| gen. | policy wonk | сотрудник аппарата политического деятеля, знающий ответы на все вопросы (Yeldar Azanbayev) |
| polit. | policy wonk | эксперт-аналитик (по политическим вопросам; слово имеет слегка ироничный оттенок (politics, government) A person who studies or develops strategies and policies, especially one who has a keen interest in and aptitude for technical details.|| Someone who takes an unnecessary interest in minor details of policy. The term is recorded from the mid 1980s, in terms of the American political scene, and there is often an implication that the high level of theoretical knowledge involved has unfitted the policy wonk for dealing with practical matters. • Connolly said he doubts the state of Russia’s economy will factor into how the war ends. Moscow has a cadre of policy wonks guiding its country through sanctions, he noted, and they have lots of practice doing so. In fact, Putin recently replaced a general at the helm of the Defence Ministry with an economist. Mathias) |
| polit. | policy wonk | политтехнолог (Alex_Odeychuk) |
| fig.of.sp. | policy wonk | "ходячая энциклопедия" по политическим вопросам (Alex_Odeychuk) |
| polit. | policy wonk | эксперт-политолог (Alex_Odeychuk) |
| econ. | policy wonk | исследователь или разработчик экономической политики (неоднозначная характеристика: с одной стороны, могут подразумеваться глубокие познания в предметной области, с другой стороны – ироничное отношение к персоне A.Rezvov) |
| gen. | policy wonk | фанат большой политики (Дмитрий_Р) |
| euph., explan. | wonk one's conker | мастурбировать (см. wank) |