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Date: 1900-2000
Language: Russian
Origin: 'openness', from glas 'voice'

glasnost

 noun
     
Related topics: Politics
glas‧nost [uncountable]
P the policy begun by Mikhail Gorbachev in the USSR in the 1980s of allowing discussion of the country's problems
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