The thickness of your blood depends on specialized blood cells, called platelets. After tissue damage, your platelets activate, clump together and begin to synthesize protein fibers that hold the cells together in a blood clot to prevents bleeding from the injury site.
Gorbachev implemented Glasnost to make the Soviet Union more free and more in line with other modern industrialized countries. Glasnost was a set of policies created in the late 1980s to: 1  Make the government of the USSR more transparent. 2  Increase accessibility to the affairs of the government.
Russian. the program of economic and political reform in the Soviet Union initiated by Mikhail Gorbachev in 1986. Of course, in Russia at that time you had just the beginning of Gorbachev, and glasnost and perestroika. I left my hometown, Nizhny Novgorod, as a teenager in the midst of perestroika. He built his empire in the perestroika days, when Russia was a new and often violent capitalism frontier.