Select the correct response from the drop-down menu. Putin put the energy industry of Russia under government control, which most clearly represented Choose... (A). A return to communism (B). A break down in national security (C). A step back from a free enterprise (D). An effort to end corruption WHAT IS IT?! PLZ ONLY ANSWER IF YOUR SURE YOUR CORRECT

(C). A step back from a free enterprise

Explanation:

After the Cold war ended and the Communist Soviet Union was dissolved, Russia under Boris Yeltsin tried to become a market economy that championed principles such as free enterprise.

The change was too sudden and caused economic problems in Russia thereby making Yeltsin quite unpopular. He handed power to Vladimir Putin who nationalised the energy industry which was a step back from the free enterprise principle that had been championed by Yeltsin.

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