[ˈɡlaznɒst], (Noun)

Definitions:
- (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
(e.g: glasnost and the other reforms were intended to modernize the USSR)


Phrases:

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