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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.”
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).
Gorbachev, by contrast, desperately tried to save the regime, adopted glasnost and perestroika to that end, and saw the system blow up in his face.
Some Arab papers have been telling of "glasnost " in Iraq, with Saddam Hussein reportedly easing government restrictions on freedom of expression and political opposition.
Stating that ...many words and usages exiled from East Germany now found a place as free citizens in the world of linguistic glasnost..., he cites only one, Republikflucht , which is a true East German neologism, i.e., a new crime--leaving the country-- which didn't exist before and has since been eliminated from the penal code.