"
Glasnost Festival is one of our favourite events of the year," says event co-ordinator, Sam Holland.
For me, the most interesting example of this is the
Glasnost era that began in 1985.
Iran's progressive forces have not abandoned their struggle for democracy and human rights and the flames of their own
glasnost now encircle a regime that has reached a dead end.
He does this by offering fresh readings of many of the most important Russian (and Georgian and Armenian) movies from the mid-1980s on, pictures ranging from Tengiz Abuladze's
glasnost blockbuster Repentance (Pokaianie/Monanieba, 1984) to Sergei Loznitsa's cerebral documentary on the siege of Leningrad, The Blockade (Blokada, 2006).
"I stood at the source of
Glasnost and freedom of press, religion, political pluralism in the Soviet Union, and my position remains the same.
But with the advent of
glasnost and the increasing availability in the East of authentic American rock records, Reed's fans defected en masse.
Over the years it has been reported in various media outlets that in 1989, Mikail Gorbachev told the Politburo: "Gentlemen, comrades, do not be concerned about all you hear about
glasnost and perestroika and democracy in the coming years.
I've never heard anyone slur the word
Glasnost before, have you?
COVENTRY BEES are to do their bit for
glasnost by recruiting a Russian rider for the first time in their history.
When we saw Gorbachev come along with
glasnost and perestroika and we watched the end of the Soviet Union.
One was Aleksandr Yakovlev, who became a key advocate of
glasnost under Gorbachev.
When he was the leader of the Soviet Union from 1985 until its demise in 1991, he introduced the ideas of
glasnost (transparency and openness) and perestroika (the restructuring of the Soviet society and economy), concepts that brought about historic changes in his country.
