When you hear 'perestroika' are you hearing English or Russian?

'Perestroika' is a word borrowed from Russian 'perestroika'. The word entered the English language some time around 1986.

perestroika [noun] [1986]

The policy of economic and governmental reform instituted by Mikhail Gorbachev in the Soviet Union during the mid-1980s

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Etymology: Russian 'perestroĭka' literally, restructuring

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