Protectionism in Russia

It has been only a year since Russian Federation after 18 years of negotiation finally accessed WTO, and since then it has managed to make headlines over imposed protectionism barriers. Such behaviour is not surprising considering that Russian industries remain to be in the poor state and performance. The state remains to choose an export-led growth strategy. Meantime, modern Russian economy policies remain inheritance much from approaches and biases of the Soviet period and even Imperial Russia, particularly period of industrialisation.
It’s quite common especially after global crisis to see a rise of protectionism not only in the developing countries, but developed too. In this essay, I would like to analyse the reasons for the rise of protectionism in Russia starting from first steps of protectionism formation and finishing up with collapse of Soviet Union and introduction of liberalized economy.