perestroika
noun
per·e·stroi·ka
ˌper-ə-ˈstrȯi-kə 
: the policy of economic and governmental reform instituted by Mikhail Gorbachev in the Soviet Union during the mid-1980s
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Whether or not a new perestroika is dawning, Russia’s leaders must outgrow power politics and recognize that force can’t secure their position either at home or abroad.
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Konstantin Dobrynin, WSJ, 14 Jan. 2019
The revelation of scandals so demeaning to the security establishment indicates an erosion of state power of the sort that preceded the last perestroika.
—Konstantin Dobrynin, WSJ, 14 Jan. 2019
Rather than policing the boundaries of respectable opinion, which are much narrower than the actual debates taking place, Times could use an ideological perestroika: to truly open itself up the breadth of opinion in America.
—Jeet Heer, The New Republic, 1 Mar. 2018
Democratization is out of the question: perestroika and glasnost are Putin’s nightmares.
—Leon Aron, National Review, 16 Feb. 2018
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Konstantin Dobrynin, WSJ, 14 Jan. 2019
The revelation of scandals so demeaning to the security establishment indicates an erosion of state power of the sort that preceded the last perestroika.
—Konstantin Dobrynin, WSJ, 14 Jan. 2019
Rather than policing the boundaries of respectable opinion, which are much narrower than the actual debates taking place, Times could use an ideological perestroika: to truly open itself up the breadth of opinion in America.
—Jeet Heer, The New Republic, 1 Mar. 2018
Democratization is out of the question: perestroika and glasnost are Putin’s nightmares.
—Leon Aron, National Review, 16 Feb. 2018
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