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Public policy initiated in the 1980's
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glasnost
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In Russian language the word glasnost (, ) has several general and specific meanings. Its meaning "publicity" in the sense "the state of being open to public knowledge" has been used in Russian at least since the end of the 18th century. In the Russian ...
Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
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noun EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS ▪ Above all, though, glasnost and greater contact with the West have brought about a faitaccompli. ▪ Enter glasnost and perestroika, along with the issues of determining where they would lead, and how fast. ▪ Gorbachev was eager ...
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First employed, in tandem with the less-easily defined term glasnost, which can mean either 'openness' or 'publicity' depending upon the context, by spokespersons for the Soviet Kremlin during the latter half of the twentieth century, Old Calendar, to specify a vast and pervasive liberalization of a heretofore strictly hierarchized Soviet government.