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After several years of merely sluggish progress following Russia’s application for WTO-accession in the first half of 1999, President Putin put the issue at the top of his reform agenda and preparations remarkably sped up. In addition, debate inside and outside Russia regarding the pros and cons of the membership in the club accelerated too. Questions are being asked about the general and specific costs and benefits. The overall conclusion is that despite a possible sectoral and regional drawback in the short run, a considerable advantage for the Russian economy will follow in the long run. But even immediately after the accession, Moscow will reap the first fruits by getting a leverage to defend its interests before an established dispute-settlement body and thus to counter arbitrary anti-dumping and other discriminatory measures against Russian exports.
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Hishow, O.N. (2004). Russia and the WTO: What is at Stake?. In: Gavrilenkov, E., Welfens, P.J.J., Wiegert, R. (eds) Economic Opening Up and Growth in Russia. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-540-24729-6_19
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