| Hint | Word |
| Not glasnost - Gorbachev's other main policy | |
| Astronaut | |
| Russian national alcoholic drink | |
| Triangular musical instrument | |
| Labour camp | |
| One appointed to a place on the basis of political or ideological loyalty | |
| A flammable 'cocktail' | |
| Cabbage soup | |
| Racially motivated riot | |
| | Hint | Word |
| Educated upper class | |
| Revolutionary founding movement of the Soviet Union | |
| Card game based on principle of 'bidding' | |
| Grassland plain without trees | |
| Thin pancake | |
| Slavic monarch | |
| Beetroot soup | |
| High-ranking title, often military | |
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