Number one: You're answer is D. The government controlled everything, due to it being Communist.
Number two: The answer is C. When oil lost it's price dramatically, the USSR's economy fell and it could no longer control the Middle East as well as before
Number Three: The answer is A. Socialist republic Russia today isn't officially a communist country. But there are many communist factors, and traits that it is using right now.
The similarities between Americans and Africans in the early centuries was that both America and Africa became the first areas of the world to encounter important outcomes from European expansion. They were similar to the fact that Europeans wanted to extract the natural resources from both the countries.
They were different from each other in a way that colonialism affected Africa and transformed America.
Negative: news blogging can put journalists out of jobs.
Positive: news blogging can get factual news quicker than traditional news outlets by real people who have witnessed the event.
