The Adventures of IKEA in Russia: the informers from the FSB, the conflict with Baturin and money meeting with the President

I will never forget my first meeting with the Ambassador of Sweden in Russia Sven Hirdman. This is a very straightforward person greeted me with the words: “So it’s you we have from IKEA. Then explain how you can be such idiots to begin construction without first having understood what is going on here?”

What can you say? The only thing I could reply: “If we knew exactly what was going on, we probably would not be here. It would be a pity, is not it?”
Pro Vice-Governor of Moscow region

Second IKEA was located in the south of Moscow, and also outside Moscow, on former farmland.

In this regard, we expect a difficult test of humility. Part of the land occupied “agricultural land”, whose status had changed to “the land of production, and it is very difficult. But even worse things in the second part of the plot, beyond which was enshrined the status of “forest land”, a category which change almost impossible. In this process must involve a variety of committees and departments - only 39 instances. After another resolution, we told each time that’s left to get the last permit. But after that it turned out that need the approval of another agency, and for him - one more …

We handed the documents from one level to another, diligently collecting all the necessary signatures. The climax (though not the last stage) was the signature of Prime Minister Primakov. Then, this paper is returned to us, having passed through the same rooms, only in reverse order. But we soon relaxed, having received a package of documents. The area continues to grow trees, which were to be cut down - of course, receiving a special permit. Who knew that getting permission for felling of trees, which grow in the forest, which now officially does not exist, it is impossible? Refraining from the estimates, I note: some differences between Russia and Western logic objectively exist.

28 February 2010

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