By Anders Aslund Commentary by Wednesday, July 01, 2009 - Powered by Russian Prime Minister Vladimir Putin recently announced that Russia, Belarus, and Kazakhstan had abandoned their separate talks to join the World Trade Organization. Instead, they would seek to enter the world trade body as a single customs union. In effect, this means that Russia seems to be casting aside its accession to the WTO - a major reversal of Russian strategy. Putin's statement hit like a bolt from the blue. Two days...
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