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.
Mikhail Gorbachev-Soviet statesman whose foreign policy brought an end to the Cold War and whose domestic policy introduced major reforms (born in 1931).Gorbachev, Mikhail Sergeyevich Gorbachev.ussian MPs demands to try Mikhail Gorbachev for complicity in USSR ... by AKIpress News Agency. 1991: Hardliners stage coup against President Gorbachev Soviet President. has been overthrown after a coup by Communist hardliners.