Word: glasnost
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...Soviet Union as citizens grasped just how awful the system had become. Gorbachev realized that "even if you wanted to be Stalin, you couldn't anymore," says Michael Mandelbaum of the Johns Hopkins School of Advanced International Studies. Within months, the Soviet leader accelerated his perestroika and glasnost reforms, which speeded the collapse of Soviet communism. In China, Hu sacked the health minister and Beijing's mayor. But it still isn't clear whether he and other top officials truly understand that a free flow of information is critical to a healthy society, to free markets, to long-term prosperity...
...News of the high-level military insubordination has been kept out of the media, but was confirmed to Time by an independent source. Yet the kingdom's newspapers, beneficiaries in recent years of the Saudi version of glasnost, have been given the freedom to attack the U.S. for its role in Iraq. (Editors have, however, been asked to 'balance' the criticism, and one paper even carried a glowing report on how the Marines are such nice guys...
...Western media hit Russia by storm after Gorbachev opened the borders with his radical policy of “Glasnost,” or openness, in the mid 1980s. Russians were besieged by Western television, film and fashion. Now, women watch Brazilian soap operas and aspire to dress like Julia Roberts and Giselle. The Western media even seems to have made Russia’s holy babushka (grandmother) an anachronism here...
...very fact that these two groups can agree to disagree that brings them together. Apart from physical assaults, they have exchanged numerous philosophical shots in intense debates. The theological glasnost began when a few CI members joined a discussion list on the HSS website...
...Gorby. Glasnost. Perestroika. Those quaint, inseparable terms entered the global lexicon in the 1980s as Soviet leader Mikhail Gorbachev proclaimed a new glasnost (openness) in Soviet society and began implementing perestroika (restructuring) in its economy and politics. He sought a more conciliatory relationship with the U.S., negotiating arms reductions. With a Western-style politician's charm and homey touch, he became, as TIME put it, "a symbol of hope for a new kind of Soviet Union: more open, more concerned with the welfare of its citizens and less with the spread of its ideology and system abroad." What did spread...