Instead, he unleashed forces that would bring it to its knees. This is the story of Perestroika and Glasnost. FBI director says agents arrested judge for obstructing immigration operation Two pets ...

Nearly thirty years behind bars, a conviction for espionage, and years shrouded in both physical and symbolic darkness define ...

Gorbachev initiated a twin policy of limited expansion of domestic freedoms (glasnost) and economic reforms (perestroika). The central aim of the section of the bureaucracy led by Gorbachev was to ...

Vavilov, a victim of the Lamarckian theories of T.D. Lysenko, in an apparent effort to promote glasnost and improve the status of Soviet science. Moscow's Central Concert Hall was packed November 24 ...

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 ...

As the world mourns the death of Pope Francis, the first Latin American head of the Roman Catholic Church, who died on April 21, Easter Monday, at the age of 88, the Catholic Church’s top ...

So, it needs a glasnost to look into, and if necessary to do an exercise of perestroika,” said the former judge. The retired judge said he hoped the committee would be in a position to “visit ...