Why Doesn't Russia Join the WTO?

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Click to increase image sizeClick to decrease image size Acknowledgements He would like to thank Julija Remeikaite for excellent research assistance and Fred Bergsten, Harry Broadman, Gary Hufbauer, Jeffrey Schott, David Tarr, and Victor Winston for useful comments. Notes 1. Peter Mandelson, “Russia, Its Future and the WTO,” Moscow, Russia, March 27, 2007, http://europa.eu/rapid/pressReleasesAction.do?reference=SPEECH/07/192&format=HTML&aged=1&language=EN&guiLanguage=en. 2. Vladimir Putin, “Poslanie Presidenta RF V.V. Putina Federal'nomu Sobraniiu Rossiiskoi Federacii” (Address of President V.V. Putin to the Federal Assembly of the Russian Federation), Rossiskaya Gazeta, April 19, 2002. 3. See Patrick A. Messerlin, Measuring the Costs of Protection in Europe: European Commercial Policy in the 2000s (Washington, D.C.: Institute for International Economics, 2001). 4. The board contained about 25 top businessmen, including Aleksandr Abramov, Vagit Alekperov, Anatoly Chubais, Oleg Deripaska, Vladimir Evtushenkov, Mikhail Fridman, Vladimir Lisin, Andrei Malnichenko, Aleksandr Mamut, Aleksei Miller, Aleksei Mordashov, Vladimir Potanin, Viktor Vekselberg, and David Yakobashvili. 5. See Michael P. Barry, “Russia, Agriculture, and WTO Accession,” Occasional Paper (Washington, D.C.: U.S.–Russia Business Council, 2004). 6. See Anders Åslund, “Russia's Economic Transformation under Putin,” Eurasian Geography and Economics 45, no. 6 (September 2004): 397–420. 7. See Anders Åslund, Russia's Capitalist Revolution (Washington, D.C.: Peterson Institute for International Economics, October 2007). 8. Vladimir Putin, “Poslanie Federal'nomu Sobraniiu Rossiiskoi Federatsii” (Address to the Federal Assembly of the Russian Federation), Rossiiskaia Gazeta, May 11, 2006. 9. Anders Åslund “The President's Turn Away from the Market,” Moscow Times, November 8, 2006, http://www.piie.com/publications/opeds/oped.cfm?ResearchID=684. 10. See Neil Buckley, Alan Beattie, and Eoin Callan, “Russia Reaches Bilateral Deal with U.S. for Entry to WTO,” Financial Times, November 11, 2006. 11. See Andrei Illarionov, “The Russian Leadership's Preparation for War, 1999–2008,” in Svante E. Cornell and S. Frederick Starr, eds., The Guns of August 2008: Russia's War in Georgia (Armonk, NY: M.E. Sharpe, June 2009), pp. 68–72. 12. See Vladimir N. Pregelj, “The Jackson–Vanik Amendment: A Survey,” CRS Report for Congress, 98–545, August 1, 2005, http://www.fas.org/sgp/crs/row/98-545.pdf. 13. See Thomas Rutherford, David Tarr, and Oleksandr Shepotylo, “The Impact on Russia of WTO Accession and the Doha Agenda: The Importance of Liberalization of Barriers Against Foreign Direct Investment in Services for Growth and Poverty Reduction,” in Thomas W. Hertel and L. Alan Winters, eds., Poverty and the WTO: Impacts of the Doha Development Agenda (Washington, D.C.: World Bank, 2005). 14. Vladimir V. Putin, speech, “Expanded Meeting of the State Council on Russia's Development Strategy through 2020,” February 8, 2008. 15. Anders Åslund and Andrew Kuchins, The Russia Balance Sheet (Washington, D.C.: Peterson Institute for International Economics, 2009). Additional informationNotes on contributorsAnders ÅslundAnders Åslund is a senior fellow at the Peterson Institute for International Economics