COMMENT | Looks like Puad is pushing for glasnost

COMMENT | The word “glasnost” (openness) entered political parlance in the mid-1980s when Soviet ruler Mikhail Gorbachev attempted to bring reform to a fossilised bureaucracy.

So important was that effort to reform the Soviet Union that the word, together with “perestroika” (restructuring), entered the language of political discourse as catchphrases signalling the user’s desire to usher in change...