MOSCOW, March 2. /TASS/. The Soviet Union’s first president, Mikhail Gorbachev, has said that the policy of glasnost was crucial to reforms in the Soviet Union. "I am also scolded for glasnost.

play Perestroika and glasnost: Gorbachev's reforms Gorbachev's two main reform ideas are perestroika (restructuring) and glasnost (openness). Gorbachev announces reform plans to increase liberty ...

- What is your biggest achievement in life? - Perestroika, of course, and everything that goes with it. It is my profound conviction that perestroika was necessary, and that we were moving in the ...

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(JTA) — Mikhail Gorbachev, the Soviet leader whose reforms ... and Gorbachev’s policies of perestroika (reconstruction) and glasnost (openness) introduced unprecedented freedoms of expression ...

MOSCOW--Mikhail Gorbachev, who set out to revitalize the ... to end his country’s economic and political stagnation, using “glasnost” or openness, to help achieve his goal of “perestroika ...