Sentences with word «glasnost»

To be sure, Mikhail Gorbachev's policies of glasnost and perestroika have brightened the prospect that athletes from the U.S.S.R. will be allowed to ply their trade in the U.S. Still, the idea of sending top athletes to the NHL and the NBA, in which they would be under the world's microscope, is clearly a ground - breaking one for the Soviet sports hierarchy.

Even if international links must be forged for the Indian economy to rise, we need transparency in dealings, glasnost in Governmental policies and public debate on what affects the people.

An overwhelming majority of respondents favor corporate glasnost.

Then, in the late 1990s and early 2000s, Putin, sensing a good business opportunity and pursuing a nationalist agenda, sought to reacquire lucrative Russian brands that had been sold off during Glasnost.

Mikhail Gorbachev's feline spokesman, Gennadi Gerasimov, once teased suspicious Western correspondents by sneering at them in the early days of the great perestroika and glasnost experiment, «We have done the cruelest thing to you that we could possibly have done.

Such hopes increased when Mikhail Gorbachev began to advocate glasnost.

But on the whole, there is enough evidence at least to suggest that, if one wants to have both a market economy and democracy, it is better to have the former precede the latter» if you will, to have perestroika before glasnost (it being understood, of course, that Gorbachev had something other than full capitalism in mind with the former term, and something less than full democracy with the latter).

To make Soviet society creative, he must free Soviet persons (at least a little) through glasnost, allowing creative and reflective intellect to flourish.

China, for example, «had everything to gain by opening up to the world» and although it sounded a tad like a Cameron cliché, one supposes he was hinting at a reciprocal arrangement: China's acceptance of free trade will offer opportunity and prosperity to all its citizens yet will equally be a sort of glasnost period where civic consciousness grows together with economic prosperity, and will thus engender reforms to the currently ossified and authoritarian Chinese state.

He tried to implement Glasnost and Perestroika to get the SU out of the hole.

It considers the choice in «Labour's first truly modern leadership campaign» but warns us that «there is a balance to be struck between embracing the party's new glasnost and forgetting the old ways — and why we adopted them in the first place.»

Key to this is the idea of a cultural glasnost whereby channels for dissent and debate are enabled.

The king, who was educated at Royal Military Academy Sandhurst and at Oxford in the United Kingdom, and also attended Georgetown University in Washington, D.C., appreciated Badran's position on the need for Arab glasnost.

Such sweeping glasnost doesn't appeal to the pharmaceutical industry, which is concerned that disclosing clinical study reports could open data to potential competitors.

Five years ago, glasnost allowed the plight of the Aral to be brought to world attention for the first time.

Bloc Busters Eastern Bloc film keeps on keeping on: three glasnost boat rockers forge a dream realism, Soviet - style.

Special midsection on Glasnost, Indian film, working girls on film, Brian De Palma's guilty pleasures, Rabbi Menahem M. Schneerson's cablecasts, Berlin and New Directors / New Films festival coverage

(Glasnost only went so far.)

Sundance 1995, special section on Michael Powell and Emeric Pressburger, glasnost cinema, Robert Zemeckis, Colin Low and Wolf Koenig's City of Gold, Barbet Schroeder interview, Charley Chase, Mikhail Kalatozov's I am Cuba

2008Thaw, Russian Art from Glasnost to the Present, Chelsea Art Museum, New York, USA Exhibition of the Musée Mational de l'Art Moderne du Centre Pompidou, Seoul Museum of Art, Seoul, Korea Russian Dreams, Art Basel Miami Beach, Miami, USA ART - index, The Latvian National Museum of Art, Arsenal, Riga, Latvia

«It's like the birth of a civilization — Russia after glasnost, China after it opened up.

Now, perhaps we are moving towards a «climate glasnost»; a time in which, finally, the science can be debated rationally and we can study the decisions made in those days, and see that the Climate Change Act was, in fact, a deeply irresponsible piece of legislation which will hit poor homeowners with huge energy bills at a time when other countries (especially the US) are following a policy of low energy prices.»

I mean Glasnost and all, eh?

It made absolutely clear how important it was to continue the policy of glasnost, and I must say that I started to think about time in terms of pre-Chernobyl and post-Chernobyl.

The memory of those heady days in 1968 takes on a new meaning in this era of perestroika and glasnost in the Soviet Union.

Before the emergence of glasnost and of Gorbachev.

Glasnost and shallot cookies will do the main job (84)

The bomb is only the most recent surrogate for the ultimate, but it remains so even in our present moment of cold war thaw and glasnost.

Before the emergence of glasnost and of...

«Openness, Glasnost,» was daily becoming a sharper pin in the regime.

The Soviet «evil empire» has certainly not come into the kingdom, but the Christian presence in Russia and in China, the example of Billy Graham, the late moves of their hero Ronald Reagan in the age of glasnost, the prospect of government dialogue with the Palestine Liberation Organization (Israel being a favorite of this camp), will surely alter the evangelicals» public stance.

Glasnost, however, laid waste to Tikhonov's plans.

So the successor would likely be more like Khrushchev (at best), and thus it'd be a long time until a Glasnost moment would be viable culturally.

Overall, I think it a positive thing that the specifics of drug trade in the Capital Region can now be spoken of frankly and I'm sure many will rush to take advantage of the glasnost.

«I'm very optimistic,» said Rogelio López Velarde, a partner at the López Velarde, Heftye and Soria SC consulting firm, who likened the energy reforms to the Glasnost and Perestroika policies during the twilight of the Soviet Union.

This glasnost is due in large part to Lassina Zerbo, director of CTBTO's International Data Centre from 2004 to 2013 and, since then, the organization's executive secretary.

With the coming of glasnost, muted references to the political use of psychiatry began to appear in the Soviet media.

Glasnost this, baby.

Russian Critics on the Cinema of Glasnost, edited by Michael Brashinsky and Andrew Horton, is a book in two parts: the first, Films in a Shifting Landscape, is a series of essays analyzing the historical and cultural legacy that shaped three generations of Soviet film criticism; the second, Glasnost's Top Ten, is a compilation of... read more»

A glasnost - era Cold War yarn released the year following the fall of the Berlin Wall and the year before the dismantling of the Soviet Union, this stars Sean Connery as Barley Blair, a British book publisher entrusted by a mysterious Russian known as Dante (Klaus Maria Brandauer) with a manuscript that might blow open the whole arms race.

Although education exchanges between the two superpowers have mushroomed under Mr. Gorbachev's policy of glasnost, the magazine is one of the few efforts so far likely...

Bush's glasnost was to implement accountability through measurement of results by test scores.

A neighbour named his cats after the Communist Party policies Glasnost and Perestroika.

Glasnost, Perestroika and then poof, bye - be the Soviet Union.

At one time, Russia, the birth place of the «Iron Curtain» appeared to be impenetrable to visitors from the West but since the era of Glasnost, Perestroika, and Mikhail Gorbachev, relationships have thawed and the world's largest country is gradually establishing itself as a must - see destination.

In 1989 the museum responded to Mikhail Gorbachev's glasnost policy by cosponsoring 10 + 10: Contemporary Soviet and American Painters, the first major exhibition to combine contemporary Soviet and American artists and the first Soviet / American exchange show to tour both countries.