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Sounds like glastnost will be of no help to McGarrett, who will have to do a little sweet-talking to get the entitled Consul General to hand over the scumbag comrade.
Mega Buzz: One Tree Hill's Goodbye, a New Five-0 Villain and Housewives' Murder 2012
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Devastated by how the Communist ideal has become corrupted under Leonid Brezhnev's regime, he committed treason, and in so doing hastened the Cold War's end and made way for Mikhail Gorbachev, glastnost and perestroika.
Brad Balfour: Exclusive: French Director Carion Bids Farewell to Russian Spy Brad Balfour 2010
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Devastated by how the Communist ideal has become corrupted under Leonid Brezhnev's regime, he committed treason, and in so doing hastened the Cold War's end and made way for Mikhail Gorbachev, glastnost and perestroika.
Brad Balfour: Exclusive: French Director Carion Bids Farewell to Russian Spy 2010
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Devastated by how the Communist ideal has become corrupted under Leonid Brezhnev's regime, he committed treason, and in so doing hastened the Cold War's end and made way for Gorbachev, glastnost and perestroika.
Brad Balfour: Exclusive: French Director Carion Bids Farewell to Russian Spy 2010
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Others have retired from the profession, disillusioned with the aborted glastnost and the consecutive calls for criticism, which ended up being bait for the most daring.
Yoani Sanchez: Fighting the "Demons of Kidnapped Information" 2009
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We need a glastnost to be able to talk about the invasion of Mexicans who will soon conquer the Southwest (and California) (!).
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No accusation of "weakness" accompanied Ike's "open verification", Nixon's "detent", Reagan's glastnost and peristroika, and Bush I's "no rubbing Russian noses and pride in the breakup of USSR" policies.
So Hillary Clinton gave Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov a large plastic button with the word "overcharge" on it. Ann Althouse 2009
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Come to think of it, there were actual events which helped bring about the end of nuclear fears I (resolution of the CMC), nuclear fears II (coming of glastnost), and the internet boom (demonstrated incapacity of many dot-coms to turn a profit).
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There were these rumors I'd heard that there'd been a nuclear accident in the Soviet Union -- this was long before the days of glastnost and so forth -- that was very mysterious.
Dangerous Liaisons 1991
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LAMB: Now, are your friends -- who are in the Metropol writers group over there -- have they been able to publish anything they want to, since perestoika and glastnost came in?
Say Cheese 1989
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