Brussels, 20/12/2013 (Agence Europe) - The Russian president, Vladmir Putin, has not ruled out taking the European Union to the World Trade Organisation (WTO) over its restrictions on Russian chemical imports.
At his long annual press conference on 18 December, Putin said he was not expecting to reap immediate benefits from Russia's membership of the WTO, but some mechanisms provide a way of ensuring effective protection of some markets, like metals and chemicals. Some European partners...