glas‧nost /ˈɡlæznɒst $ ˈɡlɑːsnoʊst/
noun [uncountable][
Date: 1900-2000;
Language: Russian;
Origin: 'openness', from glas 'voice']
the
policy begun by Mikhail Gorbachev in the USSR in the 1980s of allowing discussion of the country’s problems
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