Sentence examples of "изящным" in Russian with translation "nifty"

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Могу только предполагать, сколько все эти изящные пируэты принесли Науру денег, но известно, что после признания Абхазии и Южной Осетии, русские пожертвовали острову девять миллионов долларов на модернизацию местного порта. I can only guess how much Nauru earned from these nifty about-turns, but we do know that, after recognizing Abkhazia and South Ossetia, the Russians donated nine million dollars to refurbish the island’s port.
Приключения Мао на Корейском полуострове (где он поддерживал северные силы против юга и ее западных союзников) помогли усилить ось Вашингтон-Тайбэй, которая, благодаря некоторой изящной дипломатии, выжила и после того, как Президент Ричард Никсон начал сближение с Китаем в начале 1970-х годов. Mao’s adventures on the Korean peninsula, supporting the North against the South and its Western allies, helped to cement the Washington-Taipei axis, which, thanks to some nifty diplomatic footwork, survived President Richard Nixon’s rapprochement with China in the early 1970s.
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