How to Use glasnost in a Sentence

glasnost

noun

• Jews were fleeing to the West by the thousands then, fearing that the antisemitic sinkhole created by glasnost would soon swallow them.
  — Margarita Gokun Silver, Longreads, 30 Apr. 2018
• Part of that also had to do with glasnost, which allowed Soviet citizens to finally discuss the crimes that many in the West were already aware of.
  — Casey Michel, The New Republic, 31 Aug. 2022
• At night, the majestic architect lights up like a glittering glasnost theme park.
  — Norma Meyer, sandiegouniontribune.com, 20 Sep. 2017
• The central bank glasnost over the past decade represents a U-turn from how policy was conducted a generation ago.
  — Nick Timiraos, WSJ, 14 June 2018
• Celebrities don’t owe anything to their fans, nor should viewers expect any real glasnost in documentaries about their lives.
  — Arielle Pardes, Wired, 7 Feb. 2020
• It was wielded by the glasnost reformers like a sword, delivering the final blows against a regime that had lost its legitimacy.
  — Douglas Murray, National Review, 30 Oct. 2017
• At the time, the Soviet Union was opening up under policies including glasnost, which gave more room for public debate and criticism.
  — Washington Post, 28 Oct. 2021
• Mr Putin, who began his presidency 20 years ago by covering up the sinking of the Kursk submarine, is determined not to repeat the glasnost experiment, which helped to bring the whole system crashing down.
  — The Economist, 21 May 2020
• Gorbachev played a central role in winding down the Cold War, with his trademark glasnost and perestroika policies opening the Soviet economy and leading to increasing engagement with the West in the late 1980s.
  — Harold Maass, The Week, 31 Aug. 2022
• The newfound glasnost on Novichoks, also known as fourth-generation nerve agents, should spur research on their mechanism of action and on countermeasures and treatments.
  — Richard Stone, Science | AAAS, 23 Oct. 2019
• The experience later reinforced Mr. Gorbachev’s belief in the value of glasnost, or openness.
  — David E. Hoffman, Washington Post, 30 Aug. 2022
• The Soviet Union came out of its myth of closed markets in 1985 under Mikhail Gorbachev’s policy of perestroika (restructuring) and glasnost (openness).
  — The Christian Science Monitor, 9 Aug. 2017
• Unfortunately, between these two groups -- those who acknowledge reality and those who continue to float along on the road to Oz -- there can be no détente, no perestroika and surely no glasnost.
  — Kent Sepkowitz, CNN, 13 Sep. 2021
• Following glasnost, they were freed, and their various communities thrived.
  — Paul Elie, The New Yorker, 12 Mar. 2022
• In the 1980s, there was a brief change of course as Mikhail Gorbachev instituted openness and transparency policies, or glasnost, which included limiting the Communist Party’s power and allowing a freer and more critical press.
  — Justin Sherman, Wired, 1 May 2020
• Democratization is out of the question: perestroika and glasnost are Putin’s nightmares.
  — Leon Aron, National Review, 16 Feb. 2018
• Some adore him for introducing perestroika, or restructuring, combined with glasnost, or openness, which together helped to jettison the worst repressions of the Communist system.
  — Neil MacFarquhar, New York Times, 1 June 2016
• His programs of glasnost, or openness, and perestroika, economic restructuring, changed Russian society.
  — Peter Baker, New York Times, 6 Sep. 2017
• Communist party leader Mikhail Gorbachev’s policies of perestroika (restructuring) and glasnost (openness) signaled a massive shift in ideology and economy that eventually led to the dissolution of the Soviet government.
  — Jeremy Woo, SI.com, 25 July 2017

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