His policies of perestroika (reconstruction) and glasnost (openness) gave ordinary citizens the opportunity to exercise real political freedoms, including freedom of speech. You can listen to more ...

At that time, the Communist Party was in the middle of Mikhail Gorbachev’s campaign of glasnost, or “openness.” As the authorities relaxed controls on information, previously unmentionable s ...

His Glasnost Defence Foundation monitors freedom of speech. Twenty years after the tumultuous events that toppled communist regimes like dominoes across Eastern Europe the euphoria of glasnost is but ...

Many Americans are worried that their First Amendment right to free speech is fading. NPR's Morning Edition has talked to legal experts, activists, immigration lawyers, scientists, students ...

From perestroika to glasnost to "Gorbymania", here are five ... In early 1985, Gorbachev said in a speech: "It's obvious, comrades, that we all need to change. All of us." He used a verb that ...

All of this has left critics asking if freedom of speech at universities is fading. Some conservatives say Trump's election has provoked a backlash on campus. Kristan Hawkins, president of the ...