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   Glas·nost

   /ˈɡläzˌnōst/

   

   noun

   • 1. (in the former Soviet Union) the policy or practice of more open consultative government and wider dissemination of information, initiated by leader Mikhail Gorbachev from 1985.

   Word Origin from Russian glasnostʹ, literally ‘the fact of being public’, from glasnyy ‘public, open’ + -nostʹ ‘-ness’.

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