glasnost in English

noun
1
(in the former Soviet Union) the policy or practice of more open consultative government and wider dissemination of information, initiated by leader Mikhail Gorbachev from 1985.
In recent months, the president explained, we had been hearing a great deal from the Soviet Union about a new policy of glasnost or openness.

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1. We see perestroika leading to glasnost.

2. This was a harbinger of glasnost to come.

3. There is no evidence of either glasnost or perestroika.

4. The charms of limitless glasnost have already worn distinctly thin.

5. 12 The charms of limitless glasnost have already worn distinctly thin.

6. Not even glasnost and all its press conferences could change that.

7. In the Soviet Union the leader at the time , Mikhail Gorbachev , was pursuing Glasnost, or'openness.

8. Above all, though, glasnost and greater contact with the West have brought about a faitaccompli.

9. The pact is widely seen as one of the environmental fruits of glasnost in the Soviet Union.

10. Four years after Glasnost was adopted, the inflow of information revolutionized the climate of Soviet public opinion.

11. Enter glasnost and perestroika, along with the issues of determining where they would lead, and how fast.

12. Western interest has increased since glasnost, but has concentrated on the more contemporary works of the 1970s and 1980s.

13. In the first flush of glasnost much information was made available and deputies often asserted themselves aggressively.

14. Gorbachev was eager to meet with Reagan, as a part of his overall policy of glasnost, or openness.

15. Supposing they are being formed into a new secret police - with the aim of destroying glasnost and perestroika?

16. , and by 1989 Mikhail Gorbachev was in power promising perestroika—a comprehensive restructuring of Soviet politics and economy—and glasnost, a policy of openness and transparency.

17. However, Glasnost did not originate from Gorbachev's good will alone — but rather from his recognition of a technological necessity.

18. By the time Mikhail Gorbachev initiated perestroika and glasnost in the late 1980s, the Soviet Union was all but bust.

19. Had they been in vogue in 19[Sentence dictionary] the words perestroika and glasnost might have been used by observers.

20. Gorbachev responded to the Soviet Union's problems by introducing perestroika, or economic restructuring, and glasnost, an element of political freedom.

21. During the 1980s glasnost (openness) was introduced and Soviet artists and writers again became free to express themselves as they wanted.

22. 25 This had been one of the demands put forward by the Eco-glasnost group at public protests in Sofia in October 19

23. Cuba may be experiencing the beginnings of its own period of Glasnost — which will inevitably render policies of censorship and governmental repression unsustainable.

24. Deng Xiaoping is fighting to salvage his reforms in China, and Mikhail Gorbvachev's glasnost and perestroika seem to be ending in anarchy and economic ruin.

25. In 19 Gorbachev introduced his policy of glasnost, which sought to promote free speech, limit media censorship, and encourage discussion of political, economic, and social issues.

26. Bandaging corpses offers opportunities of deepening denial as illustrated in the process of first perestroika then glasnost in attempt to facilitate perestroika, indicators of the trajectories

27. Paired with perestroika, the restructuring of the Soviet economy, glasnost set the stage for the 1989 revolutions in Eastern Europe and the final breakup of the Soviet Union.

28. For old and new media alike this may be a cultural shift in how we use and understand media, a glasnost that comes with everyone's ability to self-publish.

29. His raft of reforms — often called perestroika, or "restructuring" — included a policy known as glasnost, or openness, that called for greater freedom of speech and less control over the press.

30. In late May 1988, amid rising nationalist tensions from glasnost and perestroika, Armenia's new Communist party leader allowed the banned tricolour of the DRA to fly in Yerevan for the first time in over sixty years.