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.”

  • Where is the linguistic glasnost?

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

  • 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.

  • This glasnost was first visible in a column titled "What Ails Conservatism," by William Kristol and David Brooks, that ran in the Wall Street Journal last month.


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