| English | Russian |
| on a roll of the dice | вслепую (сколько жизней было выброшено вслепую, в надежде, что новое будущее будет лучше? • how many lives have I thrown away on a roll of the dice that the new future would be better? Побеdа) |
| parent roll | разматываемый рулон (Diskov) |
| roll back | заставить повернуть вспять (During the interview, Artyomov had talked about Vladimir A. Kryuchkov, the man who ran the espionage arm for 14 years before he was elevated to K.G.B. chief in 1988 and who is now imprisoned, charged with treason for leading the failed coup. Kryuchkov led the coup, Artyomov says, "to roll history back. It was a terrible miscalculation."  nytimes.com) |