Category:English terms calqued from Russian

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English terms that were calqued from Russian, i.e. terms formed by piece-by-piece translations of Russian terms.

To categorize a term into this category, use {{cal|en|ru|source_term}} (or {{clq|...}} or {{calque|...}}, using the same syntax), where source_term is the source-language term that the term in question was borrowed from.