the Soviet policy of open discussion of political and social issues; instituted by Soviet leader Mikhail Gorbachev in the late 1980s, beginning the democratization of the Soviet Union
So much for glasnost.
someone asks a pointed q about their south african mining company shareholder
Meanwhile in Russia there was glasnost, there was Gorby. The true-believing little Republic, feeling betrayed by its Sovet father, cracked down harder on its own dissidents.