glasnost

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  1. noun An official policy of the former Soviet government emphasizing candor with regard to discussion of social problems and shortcomings.

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  • During the post-glasnost period, the Russian cinema has sputtered along in semi-secret, at its best producing a number of tight, low-budget crime films and a handful of masterpieces: the Stalin-era epics Burnt by the Sun and Durga ; the post-glasnost naturalism of The Return ; the magical realist films, Prisoners of the Mountain and Repentance , to name a few. —  FSF,September2006
  • Even Mikhail Gorbachev during his period of "glasnost" ( "openness") kept assuring investigators that the black boxes did not exist. —  Conservapedia - Recent changes [en]
  • Corporations such as AIG that the feds now control will find a Barack Democrat as CEO and all that unaccountable bailout money in addition to Ivy League elitists will continue to see that the In many ways President Barack Obama's tough talk reminds me of Mikhail Gorbachev when he was telling the world about "glasnost" (openness / transparency) and "perestroika."
  • Transparency, a highly important term in politics, as mentioned so many times worldwide by Mikhail Gorbachev, last Secretary-General of the Soviet Union Communist Party's Central Committee, who used it relentlessly in his political discourse: "glasnost." —  Home
  • This glasnost is a move in the right direction .. ... —  Blogrunner
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  1. Russian glasnost', publicity, openness, from obsolete glas, voice, from Old Church Slavonic glasŭ; see gal- in Indo-European roots.
 

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