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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.”
So which authorities are right, the American dictionaries or the Tolkovyi Slovar'?
The entry for the Russian word in the Tolkovyi Slovar' Russkogo Yazyka (Moscow, 1935), reads as follows, as transliterated and translated:
Also interesting is the indication in the Tolkovyi Slovar' that the word is of Persian origin and that in Persian it means balcony.
The Tolkovyi Slovar' states that the Russian word for balcony (balkon) is borrowed from Italian, which took it from Persian, not the Germanic languages.