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Russia's WTO Rebuff: A Challenge for Obama

July 1, 2009

Anders Åslund sees Vladimir Putin's reassertion of control in Russia, exemplified by its walking away from the WTO, as reducing US leverage just as President Obama travels to Moscow this month.





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