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| отстаивать национальные интересы | advance national interests (so is the increased role and influence of Ahmadinejad, who may need to act more and more like Putin to advance Iran's national interests CafeNoir) |
| это отвечало бы собственным национальным интересам | this would be in keeping with our own national interests (bigmaxus) |