conflate russian

• смеша́ть

  to mix, to blend, to mingle, to combine

  to mix up, to jumble, to mess up, to throw into disorder

  to confuse, to mistake for one another, to conflate

• сме́шивать

  to mix, to blend, to mix together

  to confuse, to mix up, to conflate

  to mess up, to throw into disorder, to muddle

Examples

• Существу́ет тенде́нция к смеше́нию таки́х поня́тий, как предлага́ть реше́ние пробле́мы и со́бственно реша́ть её. Я ду́маю, что важно различа́ть их.

  There's a tendency to conflate proposing a solution with actually solving the problem. I think it's important to differentiate between the two.