Soviet leader Boris Yeltsin's 1986 political reform initiatives of glasnost and perestroika led to significant changes in the region's political, economic, and social environment of Russia.

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Mikhail Gorbachev, not Boris Yeltsin, introduced the policies of glasnost (openness) and perestroika (restructuring) in the mid-1980s to reform the Soviet Union's political, economic, and social environment.

Soviet Leader Boris Yeltsin's 1986 Political Reform Initiatives of Glasnost