glasnost
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Glasnost faced a dramatic test in April 1986, when a nuclear power station exploded in Chornobyl, Ukraine, and authorities tried at first to hush up the disaster.
From Reuters • Aug. 30, 2022
In 1989, he and vanden Heuvel published a well-regarded oral history of the era, “Voices of Glasnost: Interviews With Gorbachev’s Reformers.”
From Washington Post • Sep. 22, 2020
Glasnost was encouraging Soviet researchers to collaborate with Western colleagues, and studies of SN 1987A, the nearest supernova in modern times, had demonstrated the power of x-rays for tracing such violent events.
From Science Magazine • Jun. 10, 2019
The Glasnost Bowl was to be the first official football game played in the Soviet Union, and it was expected to become an annual tradition.
From Slate • Dec. 23, 2015
When Hoxha died in 1985, he was succeeded by a crony, Ramiz Alia, an Albanian Gorbachev who introduced local versions of Perestroika and Glasnost even before the Soviet leader did.
From After the Rain : how the West lost the East by Vaknin, Samuel
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