9. TPP and TTIP
Putin criticized the creation of exclusive trading blocs as going against the idea of the World Trade Organization and principles of free trade, as well as the use of politicized economic sanctions to accomplish countries’ own goals.
“Maybe, [they] want to put us all before the fact that the rules of the game have been rewritten, and rewritten again in favor of a narrow circle of the chosen, without participation of the WTO. This could lead to a complete imbalance of the trading system, the fragmentation of the global economic space. “