| GLASNOST | Russian word meaning 'openness' promoted by Mikhail Gorbachev in the 1980s (8) |
| CHERNENKO | Konstantin ___, thirteen-month president of the USSR succeeded by Mikhail Gorbachev in 1985 (9) |
| ANDROPOV | Yuri ____ was succeeded by Mikhail Gorbachev (8) |
| VIGORISH | In the US, the amount charged by a bookmaker for his services, from Yiddish slang based on a Russian word for "winnings" |
| VAUXHALL | London area - and the Russian word for railway station (8) |
| IZVESTIA | Alternative Russian word for news or information (8) |
| BABUSHKA | Russian word for grandmother, often used for a set of wooden dolls (8) |
| BENEFICE | What the vicar has been, perhaps, if promoted by the church (8) |
| PERESTROIKA | Programme of economic and political restructuring enacted in the Soviet Union by Mikhail Gorbachev from 1985 to 1991 (11) |
| ASPIRINS | A number of transgressions include a fair amount of piracy promoted by the drug dealers? (8) |
| SCRABBLE | Classic board game published by Selchow & Richter in 1952 and promoted by Macy's |
| USSR | Former country once led by Mikhail Gorbachev: Abbr. |
| THELORAX | 2012 animated movie promoted by IHOP |
| THEDYINGSWAN | Ballet choreographed by Mikhail Fokine and first performed by the ballerina Anna Pavlova in 1907 (3,5,4) |
| YES | What the Russian word "da" means in English |
| MARGARITA | The Master and ___, novel by Mikhail Bulgakov (9) |
| THEWHITEGUARD | Novel by Mikhail Bulgakov first serialized in 1925 (3,5,5) |
| ZIMA | Beverage brand named from the Russian word for "winter" |
| SOYUZ | Russian word for "union", also used for the Soviet space programme |
| RAISA | Forename of the wife of former Soviet leader Mikhail Gorbachev (5) |
