Example sentences for: glasnost

How can you use “glasnost” in a sentence? Here are some example sentences to help you improve your vocabulary:

  • The 1935 edition of the four-volume Tolkovyi Slovar' Russkogo Yazyka (`Explanatory Dictionary of the Russian Language') defines glasnost' as: “Accessibility to public discussion and evaluation; publicity.”

  • Some Arab papers have been telling of "glasnost " in Iraq, with Saddam Hussein reportedly easing government restrictions on freedom of expression and political opposition.

  • Also, many words and usages exiled from East Germany now found a place as free citizens in the world of linguistic glasnost, which this dictionary represented.

  • But since both perestroika and glasnost' from our point of view do not mean `restructuring' and `publicity' generally, as the English words do to us, but rather refer to reforms specifically initiated by Gorbachev, the Russian words, particularly glasnost', are usually borrowed into English unaltered (except in pronunciation).

  • Glasnost.


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