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.
(B.1931), Soviet statesman, General Secretary of the Communist Party of the USSR 1985â91 and President 1988â91; full name Mikhail Sergeevich Gorbachev.His foreign policy brought about an end to the Cold War, while within the USSR he introduced major reforms known as glasnost and perestroika.B.1931), Soviet statesman, General Secretary of the Communist Party of the USSR 1985â91 and President 1988â91; full name Mikhail Sergeevich Gorbachev.