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.
Since his resignation from the Soviet presidency in 1991, Mikhail Gorbachev has remained active in politics and world affairs. He has founded several political parties in Russia, penned opinion pieces for U.S. newspapers and even appeared in movies, television shows and advertisements for various products.