disrupt trade any more than needed. However, Russia carried most of the financial burden of the initial arrangements and … states remained ambivalent, however, to submit too much sovereignty, whereas Russia formally stayed out of the multilateral …

it examines the role played by Russia in this process. The module starts by describing the historical waves of … role of Russia. It examines the trends of Russia's share of world trade and of the share of trade over GDP since 1990. It … then looks at the sectoral and geographical distribution of Russia's trade …