No, generally speaking it would be false tat on balance, economic sanctions are reducing the threat Russia poses to Western interests, since Russia has enough natural resources to survive on its own for quite some time.
The answer is b. use correct grammar, punctuation and spelling.
I'd say A is definitely the correct answer, but also C could be, if the Valley is a place, I really don't know if it is.
Option B. absconded
absconded - leave hurriedly and secretly, typically to avoid detection of or arrest for an unlawful action such as a theft.
Example: The cashier abscond the money secretly because her mother is seriously ill.
Could that tall woman over there be Claires mother