Marking the end of a 17-year effort, WTO President José Manuel Barroso says that Russia will join the organization next year, after the two sides signed an agreement on various steps including reduced Russian timber export duties and railway freight fees.  Reuters has a Q&A on the implications of this decision.  Russia’s NATO envoy Dmitry Rogozin has spoken out against the organization’s secret plan to defend Baltic nations against potential Russian attack (revealed this week by WikiLeaks), and says he will challenge it during today’s meeting on grounds that the relationship between the two sides has improved.  The news is an ‘embarrassment‘, says the New York Times, due to recent emphasis from both sides on closer relations; the foreign ministry says it is ‘bewildered‘ by the leak.  Let’s not forget, however, that President Dmitry Medvedev had threatened a ‘new arms race‘ if the two sides could not see eye-to-eye on missile defense.  WikiLeaks also revealed this cover-up from last December: in a US-brokered deal, Russia was sent in to remove Libya’s weapons-grade uranium following concerns that a near disaster was possible.