"These days" as opposed to which days? Yeltsin days? If this is what you meant, then this is sneaky of you (perhaps unintentionally so), because you are offerin

"These days" as opposed to which days? Yeltsin days? If this is what you meant, then this is sneaky of you (perhaps unintentionally so), because you are offering political opinion, which is wrong, and which I may not refute on this site because of its political nature. Corruption is a fact of life in Russia--almost a natural law--and has always been. If you find this distasteful, then don't do business there. Ikea has known this from day one. Everyone who has ever dealt with Russia since the Iron Curtain was bound to find out on day one. This article is a move in a chess game, and both sides (in fact there is probably a handful of sides in this one) are on exactly the same ethical ground. Interesting if you're interested in minutiae of Russian politics, but otherwise business as usual.