As the war of sanctions and trade bans between Russia and the West smolders, parties on both sides have brandished the World Trade Organization as the final judge of the other's offenses, threatening to transform their deliberately temporary sanctions into a drawn out and acrid court process.
Russia's War Against Ukraine
The Moscow Times: Russia, EU wage phony war over sanctions at WTO
Commissioner for Trade Karel De Gucht speaks during a joint pressconference after a meeting EU-Ukraine-Russia political-level consultations on Association Agreement implementation on July 11, 2014 at EU Headquarters in Brussels.
