Cloud Over Glasnost From: The Washington Post | Date: May 26, 1989| Author: Don Ritter | Copyright 1989 The Washington Post. This material is published under license from the Washington Post.  All inquiries regarding rights should be directed to the Washington Post.Copyright information

A dark cloud has appeared on the horizon of glasnost, although Soviet officialdom characterizes it as blue sky. On April 11, the front page of Pravda printed the text of a decree signed by Mikhail Gorbachev. In this law, the criminal code of the U.S.S.R. dealing with "state crimes" was amended. Unfortunately, in propaganda style, the new law is being presented in the Soviet press as being a beneficial legal reform designed to prevent nationalist and ethnic "anarchy" and to "defend democracy...

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