Examples of perestroika in a Sentence

Recent Examples on the Web 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. — 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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