glasnost

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Mr. Putin was a lieutenant colonel in the K.G.B., serving in the former East Germany, when glasnost was introduced.

From New York Times

They celebrated “glasnost” and ushered Moscow into the World Trade Organization and the Group of 7 industrial nations.

From New York Times

In their attempt at radical transparency about Soviet life, the poet and her collaborators were forerunners of the glasnost that would upend the Soviet system years later.

From Washington Post

Memorial traces its roots to the 1980s under Mikhail Gorbachev, the last Soviet leader, who encouraged society to embrace greater openness, or “glasnost”.

From Reuters

Mr. Gorbachev had initiated a period of glasnost, or openness, and perestroika, a reconstruction of the political and economic system of the Soviet Union.

From New York Times