Jim Farmelant
Russia seems to have renationalized much of its energy industry under Putin. In fact even if Russia hasn't returned to the kind of state socialism that it had in the days of the USSR, it seems apparent that Russia didn't begin to pull out of its economic nosedive until it began shifting away from the neo-liberal economic policies that it had been following so slavishly under Yeltsin. Seldom has a set of economic policies been so completely discredited in practice as were the neo-liberal policies that were followed in the 1990s.
^^^^^ CB: And "neo-liberal" and "capialist" are synonymous. Moving away from neo-liberal policies is moving away from capitalist policies. There really aren't a great variety of non-capitalist policies in an industrial society. The only alternative (and there is an alternative) is socialist policies.