The policy of public frankness and accountability developed in the former Soviet Union under Mikhail Gorbachov (8)

I believe the answer is:

glasnost

(Other definitions for glasnost that I've seen before include "Openness (Russian)" , "Soviet policy of openness" , "Gorbachev's policy of "openness"" , "Gorbachev's policy from 1985" , "Policy of openness under Gorbachev" .)

I've seen this clue in The Independent.

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