Targeting Western sanctions, particularly the EU's request for trade reprisals as part of its WTO complaint against the Russian embargo on pork, the Russian Parliament (Duma) voted on Friday 12 January in support of adopting an official instruction calling on the Russian government to present it with information on the opportunity of maintaining Russia's WTO membership.
On 3 January, the EU called on the WTO to authorise it to take trade measures against Russia as part of the EU's...