When Putin became president in 2000, he named accession to the World Trade Organization as his foreign policy priority. He failed, because he gave in to petty protectionist interests, imposing a timber embargo against Finland and Sweden, a fish embargo against Norway, and various agricultural embargos against Lithuania, Ukraine, Moldova, Georgia, and others.
当普京于2000年成为总统时，他钦点加入世贸组织为其外交政策的重中之重，但却失败了。因为他向保护主义的蝇头小利妥协，对芬兰和瑞典实施了木材禁运，对挪威实施了渔业禁运，并对立陶宛、乌克兰、摩尔多瓦、格鲁吉亚和其它一些国家实行了不同的农业禁运政策。