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The Russko-Angliiskii Slovar', compiled under the general direction of Professor A.I. Smirnitsky (Sixth Edition; E.P. Dutton & Co, New York, 1959), defines the Russian word in English as follows:
Did the Italians take their word balcone from some Germanic tongue and pass it on into English, Russian, and other languages; or did Italian take the word from the Persian balahana , as Russian did balagan , at least according to the Tolkovyi Slovar'?
So which authorities are right, the American dictionaries or the Tolkovyi Slovar'?
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.”
The Tolkovyi Slovar' states that the Russian word for balcony (balkon) is borrowed from Italian, which took it from Persian, not the Germanic languages.