Ну и пусть пиздуют со своим китайским барахлом ломающимся. Seriously: you want to have a business in the country, a profitable and fast-growing one, yet you have complaints about the process. I guess, either shove it or leave. In Moscow, there was an accident when an aquapark full of people collapsed due to bad engineering and construction, too. So, maybe those delays aren't just corruption? Also: In South Korea, the…
It's interesting being downmodded for being there and having a clue.
I'd be to Samara in three weeks, would YOU?
And as of their "investments". Those "investments" just build huge malls that sap away money and life from small busines and local furniture making factories, instead introducing a wave of cheap Chinese crap. Why care? Such investments aren't life-savers for anything.
Except - traditional Russian retailers are terrible compared to Ikea. They do represent a real improvement.
However, traditional Russian furniture is fine compared to Ikea's chinese crap. Crap's cheaper, tho.
I know that on the basis of having some.
As for retailers: if it wouldn't be an IKEA mall, it would be some other kind of mall, it's not like there would be much difference.
There was an article in one of our national newspapers this weekend that shows how deep the corruption goes. A huge investment company, with 4 billion in assets, was unwilling to pay up and was driven out of business. Several government officials committed fraud to the extent of 290 million dollars (seizing taxes the company paid to the Russian government) and despite sending different parts of the government piles of evidence, no one did a thing.
One thing was clear from that article that should be clear to everyone here: Russia is not a good place to do business these days. Your competitors are the government are the criminals.
Problems like this seem to be endemic to Russia. Not only is corruption extremely common, but outside investors also have to worry about the government basically taking their shares and selling them to Russian companies, leaving them with nothing to show for the money they invested.
Ну и пусть пиздуют со своим китайским барахлом ломающимся. Seriously: you want to have a business in the country, a profitable and fast-growing one, yet you have complaints about the process. I guess, either shove it or leave. In Moscow, there was an accident when an aquapark full of people collapsed due to bad engineering and construction, too. So, maybe those delays aren't just corruption? Also: In South Korea, the…
It's interesting being downmodded for being there and having a clue. I'd be to Samara in three weeks, would YOU?
Because you so obviously are more interested in spreading libel and doubt about those who put forward critique of Russian corruption, than to actually analyze the subject matter in a civilized manner.
If you really care about Russia, start acting better than those who libel Russia. That means, don't libel back.
It's interesting being downmodded for being there and having a clue. I'd be to Samara in three weeks, would YOU?
Because you so obviously are more interested in spreading libel and doubt about those who put forward critique of Russian corruption, than to actually analyze the subject matter in a civilized manner. If you really care about Russia, start acting better than those who libel Russia. That means, don't libel back.
What I'm interested in is telling some truth about what's really happening.
I guess that's just not interesting enough. Truth is overrated.
There was an article in one of our national newspapers this weekend that shows how deep the corruption goes. A huge investment company, with 4 billion in assets, was unwilling to pay up and was driven out of business. Several government officials committed fraud to the extent of 290 million dollars (seizing taxes the company paid to the Russian government) and despite sending different parts of the government piles o…
Well, you know why they still do business here?
The answer is M O N E Y.
So, they bribe to make it happen, thus feeding the corruption loop, and don't see any problem with that! Until they do. Then, they brag the "ikea generation" crap in newspapers.
There was an article in one of our national newspapers this weekend that shows how deep the corruption goes. A huge investment company, with 4 billion in assets, was unwilling to pay up and was driven out of business. Several government officials committed fraud to the extent of 290 million dollars (seizing taxes the company paid to the Russian government) and despite sending different parts of the government piles o…
Well, you know why they still do business here? The answer is M O N E Y. So, they bribe to make it happen, thus feeding the corruption loop, and don't see any problem with that! Until they do. Then, they brag the "ikea generation" crap in newspapers.
If you need to pay bribes, you need to raise your prices to still make a profit. Your customers, i.e. you, need to pay more. Corruption hurts the population of a country, as every cent comes directly out of their pockets. That is partly why people in properly democratic countries have, and keep, a higher standard of living.
Well, you know why they still do business here? The answer is M O N E Y. So, they bribe to make it happen, thus feeding the corruption loop, and don't see any problem with that! Until they do. Then, they brag the "ikea generation" crap in newspapers.
If you need to pay bribes, you need to raise your prices to still make a profit. Your customers, i.e. you , need to pay more. Corruption hurts the population of a country, as every cent comes directly out of their pockets. That is partly why people in properly democratic countries have, and keep , a higher standard of living.
Sure! Where did I say that corruption is a good thing?
But I'm saying that they feed the corruption. By paying bribes.
I'd just like to take the time (and the modding down this comment will probably get) to thank HN, simply because this article has been posted for more than 4 hours and nobody has yet made an "in soviet russia" joke.