glasnost

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Formally registered in 1989 in the years of glasnost under Mikhail Gorbachev, Memorial has made it its mission to preserve the memory of Joseph Stalin’s repressions and to defend human rights today.

From Washington Post

By that time, Khrushchev had been dead for 19 years, and Soviet leader Mikhail Gorbachev had ushered in a period of glasnost, or openness.

From Washington Post

This proved effective in sparking Soviet leader Mikhail Gorbachev's social and political reforms of the late 1980s, best known by the Russian word "glasnost," or "openness."

From Salon

He was 91 and had largely been out of circulation since his power slipped away after the heady Soviet years of glasnost and perestroika.

From New York Times

Within months, he was campaigning to end economic and political stagnation, using “glasnost,” or openness, to pursue the goal of “perestroika” — restructuring.

From Seattle Times