Russian political phrases

Perestroika ( ; ) was a political reform movement within the Communist Party of the Soviet Union (CPSU) during the late 1980s, widely associated with CPSU general secretary Mikhail Gorbachev and his ("transparency") policy reform. literally means "restructuring", referring to the restructuring of the political economy of the Soviet Union in an attempt to end the Era of Stagnation.

Glasnost ( ; , ) is a concept relating to openness and transparency. It has several general and specific meanings, including a policy of maximum openness in the activities of state institutions and freedom of information and the inadmissibility of hushing up problems. In Russian, the word glasnost has long been used to mean 'openness' and 'transparency'. In the mid-1980s, it was popularised by Mikhail Gorbachev as a political slogan for increased government transparency in the Soviet Union within the framework of perestroika, and the word came to be used in English in the latter meaning.

slogan deriding Vladimir Putin

quote by Soviet First Secretary Nikita Khrushchev

political protest against President Vladimir Putin of Russia

Uskorenie (; literally meaning acceleration) was a slogan and a policy announced by Communist Party General Secretary Mikhail Gorbachev on 20 April 1985 at a Soviet Party Plenum, aimed at the acceleration of political, social and economic development of the Soviet Union. It was the first slogan of a set of reforms that also included (restructuring), (transparency), new political thinking, and (democratization).

fixed expression

Soviet catchphrase

popular expression used to refer to the ruling United Russia party

imperialist ideological doctrine of Russian emperor Nicholas I

Azerbaijan viral video in Russian

anti-multicultural sentiment

group of Russian oligarchs

character in a Russian idiom describing punishment

Russian propagandist slogan

song composed by Alexander Alexandrov

political slogan

Russian anti-war slogan

thumb|right|300px|2021 Moscow Victory Day Parade. [[Military parades and Soviet military symbolism play an important role in the Victory Day celebrations across Russia.]] Pobedobesie () is a pejorative term used to describe the perceivably jingoistic celebrations of Victory Day in Russia. This has been also dubbed the Victory Cult.

well-known phrase by Russian prime minister Dmitri Medvedev

1930 newspaper article by I. Stalin