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glas•nost
Pronunciation: (glaz'nost, gläz'-; Russ. gläs'nust), [key]—
n.
the declared public policy within the Soviet Union of openly and frankly discussing economic and political realities: initiated under Mikhail Gorbachev in 1985.
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