glasnost

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It was the era of glasnost and perestroika.

From Los Angeles Times • Apr. 10, 2024

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 • Mar. 22, 2023

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 • Dec. 29, 2022

As part of his reform efforts, Gorbachev also encouraged glasnost or openness, allowing those who were angry to be critical of the government.

From Textbooks • Dec. 14, 2022

He also ushered in the age of glasnost, or "openness," allowing for erstwhile unimaginable freedoms in what had for generations been a rigidly totalitarian state.

From Salon • Aug. 31, 2022